ROUSSELOT LUCIEN: Sketch representing a horseback hunter or hussar Third Republic, 20th century. 29416
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ROUSSELOT LUCIEN: Two color impressions on transparent paper depicting a horse chasseur of the Imperial Guard and a carabinier of the First Empire, 20th century. Item number 29415.
Height 12 cm, width 23.5 cm.
France.
20th century.
Very good condition.
PROVENANCE:
Studio of Lucien Rousselot, located at 4 rue Aumont-Thiéville in the 17th arrondissement of Paris.
BIOGRAPHY:
Lucien ROUSSELOT, born on May 4, 1900, passed away 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 specializing in military subjects, throughout his career he produced a considerable amount of iconography depicting the uniforms worn within the French Army over a wide period ranging from the 16th century to the end of the 19th century. Starting 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 certain series of cards dedicated to the uniforms of the First Empire. A member of the society La Sabretache, he also contributed to the journal of the society "Le Carnet de la Sabretache" until the 1990s. His major work is considered to be a series of 106 uniform plates focusing on the French uniforms worn during the First Empire, "The French Army, its uniforms, its weaponry, its equipment," which he produced from 1943 to 1970. For his paintings and plates, he used articulated miniature figures of soldiers and horses that he had created at a 1/7th 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, located at 4 rue Aumont-Thiéville in the 17th arrondissement of Paris.
BIOGRAPHY:
Lucien ROUSSELOT, born on May 4, 1900, passed away 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 specializing in military subjects, throughout his career he produced a considerable amount of iconography depicting the uniforms worn within the French Army over a wide period ranging from the 16th century to the end of the 19th century. Starting 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 certain series of cards dedicated to the uniforms of the First Empire. A member of the society La Sabretache, he also contributed to the journal of the society "Le Carnet de la Sabretache" until the 1990s. His major work is considered to be a series of 106 uniform plates focusing on the French uniforms worn during the First Empire, "The French Army, its uniforms, its weaponry, its equipment," which he produced from 1943 to 1970. For his paintings and plates, he used articulated miniature figures of soldiers and horses that he had created at a 1/7th scale, accompanied by accessories. He is buried in Marles en Brie (Seine et Marne).
Reference :
29416
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