Rousselot Lucien: Cuirassier Of The 4th Regiment First Empire: Original Study, Oil On Cardboard

ROUSSELOT LUCIEN: Cuirassier of the 4th regiment of the First Empire: Original study, oil on cardboard, 20th century. 29410 Study representing a Polish Lancer of the Imperial Guard seen from three-quarter front, H 25 cm, width 18 cm. Unsigned. France. 20th century. Good condition, two cracks on the left side. PROVENANCE: Lucien Rousselot's workshop, 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 onwards he collaborated as an illustrator and uniformologist for 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. A member of the La Sabretache society, he also collaborated on the society's magazine Le Carnet de la Sabretache until the 1990s. His work, considered major, is the series of 106 uniformology plates dealing, for more than half of them, with French uniforms worn during the First Empire The French Army, its uniforms, its armament, its equipment that he produced from 1943 to 1970. For the production of his paintings and plates he used articulated mannequins of soldiers and miniature horses that he had made on a scale of 1/7, accompanied by accessories. He is buried in Marles en Brie (Seine et Marne).