L. Rousselot: Artillery Piece

Original watercolor by Lucien Rousselot representing artillerymen on foot doing a break.
The representation is perfect from a uniformological point of view as always with Rousselot.These are the servants of a piece of 12. They are men of the line, accompanied, as it should be, by the two conductors of the Train.
The whole thing is teeming with details. The officer dismounted. His horse is held by one of the two drivers, while the other checks the harnesses.
In the foreground the artillerymen take advantage of the moment to smoke a pipe. The watercolor is presented under glass in a baguette frame. It is signed lower right L.Rousselot.
On the back is the framer's stamp: "Desangles - 48, rue Vavin 75006 Paris - Master framer in Montparnasse". Note that L.Rousselot lived in this neighborhood. Still on the back is the handwritten note: "Original watercolor by Lucien Rousselot, titular painter of the armies 1982 - Line artillery on foot. Piece of 12 and its servants, circa 1810."
Lucien Rousselot (1900 - 1992): painter and illustrator of military subjects, official painter of the armies. 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. His work considered to be major is the series of 106 uniformological plates dealing, for more than half of them, with the French uniforms worn during the First Empire.