Personal Documentation of Lucien Rouselot: The Uniforms of the First Empire: Maps by Commander Bucquoy. First Empire, 20th century. 29419

LUCIEN ROUSSELOT'S PERSONAL DOCUMENTATION: THE UNIFORMS OF THE FIRST EMPIRE: maps from COMMANDER BUCQUOY First Empire, 20th century. 29419

Under-shirt, handwritten notes by Lucien Rousselot accompanying some of Commander Bucquoy's maps on the Staff Guides of Bonaparte, the Chasseurs à Cheval of Marshal Bernadotte's Guard, the Guides of the Prince of Neuchatel, and the company of the Grand Headquarters. This documentation is complemented by color plates from the magazine Le Passepoil.

France.
20th century.
Good condition.

PROVENANCE:
Lucien Rousselot's Workshop, 4 Aumont-Thiéville street in the 17th arrondissement in 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 dealing with uniforms worn in the French Army over a broad period ranging from the 16th century to the end of the 19th century. He collaborated from the 1920s as an illustrator and military uniform expert with the magazine Le Passepoil directed by Eugène-Louis Bucquoy, for whom he also illustrated some series of maps devoted to the uniforms of the First Empire. As a member of the society La Sabretache, he also contributed to the society's magazine Le Carnet de la Sabretache well into the 1990s. His major work is considered to be a series of 106 uniform plates, more than half of which depict French uniforms worn during the First Empire, which he created from 1943 to 1970. For the realization of his paintings and plates, he used articulated miniature soldier and horse models that he had made in 1/7th scale, accompanied by accessories. He is buried in Marles en Brie (Seine et Marne).