ROUSSELOT LUCIEN: The French Army, its uniforms, its armament, its equipment - SET OF PLATES AND TRACINGS Former Monarchy, 20th century. 29418

ROUSSELOT LUCIEN: The French army, its uniforms, its weaponry, its equipment, set of plates and tracing paper. Former Monarchy, 20th century. 29418

Three tracing papers (printed), four color printed plates for study with author's notes. 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 the Arts and Letters, Knight of Academic Palms.
Painter and illustrator of military subjects, during his career, he produced an extensive 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 in the 1920s, he collaborated as an illustrator and uniformologist for the magazine Le Passepoil, led by Eugène-Louis Bucquoy, for whom he also illustrated certain series of cards devoted to the uniforms of the First Empire. A member of the society La Sabretache, he also collaborated for the magazine of the society 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, its weaponry, its equipment, which he produced from 1943 to 1970. For the realization of his paintings and plates, he used articulated mannequins of soldiers and miniature horses that he had made in 1/7 scale, accompanied by accessories. He is buried in Marles en Brie (Seine et Marne).