ROUSSELOT LUCIEN: Sketche representing a Musketeer of the Ancient Monarchy, 20th century. 29413.

ROUSSELOT LUCIEN: Sketche depicting a Musketeer from the Old Monarchy, 20th century. 29413

Pencil study depicting a Musketeer from the Old Monarchy, height 30 cm, width 21.5 cm.
Not signed.

France.
20th century.
Very good condition.

PROVENANCE:
Workshop of Lucien Rousselot, 4 rue Aumont-Thiéville in the 17th arrondissement 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 Arts and Letters, knight of the Academic Palms.
Painter and illustrator of military subjects, throughout his career, he produced an extensive iconography dealing with uniforms worn within the French Army over a wide period ranging from the 16th century to the late 19th century. From the 1920s, he collaborated as an illustrator and uniform expert 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 collaborated for the society's magazine Le Carnet de la Sabretache until the 1990s. His major work is considered the series of 106 uniform plates dealing, for more than half of them, with French uniforms worn during the First Empire, the French Army, its uniforms, weaponry, and equipment, which he produced from 1943 to 1970. For the realization of his paintings and plates, he used articulated models of soldiers and miniature horses that he had made on a 1/7 scale, accompanied by accessories. He is buried in Marles en Brie (Seine et Marne).