Rousselet Lucien: set of four sketches depicting soldiers from the First Empire, 20th century. 29411

ROUSSELOT LUCIEN: lot of four sketches representing soldiers of the First Empire, 20th century. 29411

Pencil and watercolor studies depicting soldiers of the First Empire. Dimensions: 30 x 21 cm (11.8 x 8.3 inches) and 21.5 x 14.5 cm (8.5 x 5.7 inches). Plus two prints partially hand-colored with watercolor.
Unsigned.

France.
20th century.
Very good condition.

PROVENANCE: Lucien Rousselot's studio, 4 rue Aumont-Thiéville in the 17th district of Paris.

BIOGRAPHY:
Lucien ROUSSELOT, born on May 4, 1900, died on May 4, 1992. Official painter of the army, knight of the Legion of Honor, officer of the Arts and Letters, knight of the Academic Palms.
Painter and illustrator of military subjects, throughout his career, he produced an abundant iconography depicting the uniforms worn in the French Army over a wide period ranging from the 16th century to the end of the 19th century. He collaborated from the 1920s as an illustrator and uniform specialist for the magazine Le Passepoil directed by Eugène-Louis Bucquoy, for whom he also illustrated some series of cards dedicated to the uniforms of the First Empire. A member of the society La Sabretache, he also contributed to the society's magazine Le Carnet de la Sabretache until the 1990s. His major work is considered to be the series of 106 uniform plates dealing, for more than half of them, with the French uniforms worn during the First Empire, which he produced from 1943 to 1970. For his paintings and plates, he used articulated miniature soldier and horse mannequins that he had made at a 1/7 scale, accompanied by accessories. He is buried in Marles en Brie (Seine et Marne).