ROUSSELOT LUCIEN: Two color impressions on a transparent sheet depicting a horseback hunter of the Guard and a carabinier of the First Empire, 20th century. Inventory number 29415.
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ROUSSELOT LUCIEN: Two color impressions on transparent paper of a cavalry hunter of the Guard and a Carabinier of the First Empire, 20th century. 29415
Height 12 cm, width 23.5 cm.
France.
20th century.
Very good condition.
PROVENANCE:
Studio 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 abundant iconography depicting uniforms worn within the French Army over a vast period ranging from the 16th century to the end of the 19th century. Starting in the 1920s, he collaborated 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 journal Le Carnet de la Sabretache until the 1990s. His most significant work is considered to be 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, its weaponry, its equipment, which he produced from 1943 to 1970. For the creation of his paintings and plates, he used articulated miniature soldier and horse models that he had made on a 1/7 scale, accompanied by accessories. He is buried in Marles-en-Brie (Seine et Marne).
Height 12 cm, width 23.5 cm.
France.
20th century.
Very good condition.
PROVENANCE:
Studio 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 abundant iconography depicting uniforms worn within the French Army over a vast period ranging from the 16th century to the end of the 19th century. Starting in the 1920s, he collaborated 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 journal Le Carnet de la Sabretache until the 1990s. His most significant work is considered to be 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, its weaponry, its equipment, which he produced from 1943 to 1970. For the creation of his paintings and plates, he used articulated miniature soldier and horse models that he had made on a 1/7 scale, accompanied by accessories. He is buried in Marles-en-Brie (Seine et Marne).
Reference :
29415
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