ROUSSELOT LUCIEN: The French Army, its uniforms, its arms, its equipment, set of plates and overlays, First Empire 20th century. 29417

ROUSSELOT LUCIEN: French Army - its uniforms, weapons, equipment - set of plates and tracings from the First Empire, 20th century. 29417

Eight tracings (printed), including one from the Second Empire, one printed tracing in color, three color printed plates for studies with notes from the author, height 31.5 cm, width 47.5 cm.

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 in 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 specialist with 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 collaborated on the society's journal 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 French uniforms worn during the First Empire - The French Army, its uniforms, weapons, equipment which he produced from 1943 to 1970. For his paintings and plates, he used articulated miniature soldier and horse mannequins that he had made in 1/7th scale, accompanied by accessories. He is buried in Marles en Brie (Seine et Marne).