Adolphe Roehn Explained

Adolphe Roehn
Birth Name:Adolphe Eugène Gabriel Roehn
Birth Date:5 March 1780
Birth Place:Paris, France
Death Place:Malakoff, France
Nationality:French
Known For:painting, printmaking
Children:Jean Alphonse Roehn

Adolphe Roehn (March 5, 1780 – October 19, 1867) was a French painter, draughtsman, and lithographer.

Roehn exhibited his work in the Paris Salon from 1799 to 1866, winning a second class medal in 1819.[1] Between 1802 and 1814, under the direction of Baron Vivant Denon, the director of the Louvre, he created a series of drawings illustrating Napoleon's campaigns in Italy.[2] After the bloody Battle of Eylau in 1807, Vivant Denon held a propaganda contest requiring entrants depict a certain scene from the event. Roehn received a "gold medal of encouragement" (the winning entry was Napoléon on the Battlefield of Eylau by Antoine-Jean Gros).[3]

Like his son, Jean Alphonse Roehn, he taught drawing at the Louis-Legrand School.

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Notes and References

  1. Book: Benezit Dictionary of Artists, 2011. Oxford University Press. 2011. 978-0-19-989991-3. Oxford.
  2. Web site: Des soldats français délivrent l'évêque de Pavie assailli par les rebelles. live. April 10, 2021. louvre.fr. https://web.archive.org/web/20210411045139/https://collections.louvre.fr/en/ark:/53355/cl020015219 . 2021-04-11 .
  3. O'Brien. David. 2003. Propaganda and the Republic of the Arts in Antoine-Jean Gros's Napoléon Visiting the Battlefield of Eylau the Morning after the Battle. French Historical Studies. 26. 2. 292. 10.1215/00161071-26-2-281 . 159512717 . EBSCO.