ROUSSELOT LUCIEN: Hussars of the 1st First Empire regiment: Original study, oil on panel, 20th century. 26663

ROUSSELOT LUCIEN: Hussars of the 1st First Empire regiment: Original study, oil on panel, 20th century. 26663

Study representing hussars of the 1st regiment front view, three-quarter view and rear view, H at sight 19.7 cm, width at sight 24.4 cm. Presented in a wooden frame, H 23.7 cm, width 28.5 cm.

France.
Twentieth century.
Very good state.

ORIGIN :
Workshop of Lucien Rousselot, this type of study was exhibited in the painting workshop, 4 rue Aumont-Thiéville in the 17th arrondissement in Paris.

BIOGRAPHY :
Lucien ROUSSELOT, born May 4, 1900, died 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, during his career, he produced an abundant iconography dealing with the uniforms worn within the French Army over a vast period from the 16th century to the end of the 19th century. From the 1920s, he collaborated as an illustrator and uniformologist with the magazine Le Passepoil directed by Eugène-Louis Bucquoy, for whom he also illustrated some of the series of cards devoted to the uniforms of the First Empire. Member of the company La Sabretache, he also collaborated for the magazine of the company Le Carnet de la Sabretache until the 1990s. His work considered to be major is the series of 106 uniformological boards dealing, for more than half of them, French uniforms worn during the First Empire The French Army, its uniforms, its armament, its equipment which he produced from 1943 to 1970. For the realization of his paintings and his plates he used articulated mannequins of soldiers and miniature horses he had made in 1/7th scale, complete with accessories. He is buried in Marles en Brie (Seine et Marne).