Rousselet Lucien: lot of four sketches representing soldiers from the Old Monarchy, 20th century. Item 29412.

Lucien Rousseau: set of four sketches representing soldiers of the Old Monarchy, 20th century. 29412

Pencil studies depicting soldiers of the Old Monarchy H 30/27 cm, width 21.5/20.5 cm.
Not signed.

France.
20th century.
Very good condition.

PROVENANCE:
Atelier of Lucien Rousselot, 4 rue Aumont-Thiéville in the 17th arrondissement of Paris.

BIOGRAPHY:
Lucien Rousseau, born on May 4, 1900, died on May 4, 1992. Official painter of the army, Knight of the Legion of Honor, Officer of Arts and Letters, Knight of Academic Palms.
A painter and illustrator of military subjects, throughout his career, he produced a rich iconography dealing with the uniforms worn within the French Army over a broad 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 devoted to uniforms of the First Empire. A member of the society La Sabretache, he also collaborated for 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 with, for more than half of them, French uniforms worn during the First Empire – The French Army, its uniforms, its weapons, its equipment, which he realized from 1943 to 1970. For the realization of his paintings and plates, he used articulated miniature soldier and horse mannequins that he had made on a 1/7 scale, accompanied by accessories. He is buried in Marles en Brie (Seine et Marne).