Generally excellent condition, framed and matted. A rare opportunity to acquire an original watercolor by one of if not the foremost military painters of the 20th century.

About the artist:

Lucien Rousselot, born in 1900 and died in 1992, was a French painter, illustrator, and titular Painter of the French Army, known for his realistic and painstakingly detailed representations of the uniforms of the French army.

Rousselot received his artistic training at the renowned School of Decorative Arts in Paris

and became one of the world's most important military artists, playing an integral role in establishing uniformology (the study of military uniforms) as a true science.

During his career, as a painter and illustrator of military subjects, he produced an abundant iconography dealing with uniforms worn by the French Army over the period from the 16TH century to the end of the 19TH Century. From the 1920s he collaborated as an illustrator and uniformologist at the magazine Le Passepoil, directed by Eugène-Louis Bucquoy, for whom he also illustrated some of the large series of plates devoted to the uniforms of the First Empire that Bucquoy published between 1907 and 1952, Les Uniformes du Premier Empire.

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