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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. 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. 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).

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

Gallery

• The Swearing in of President Boyer at the Palace of Haiti, ca. 1818, Clark Art Institute, Williamstown
• Country Fair
• Entrevue de Napoléon Ier et d'Alexandre Ier sur le Niemen
• Bivouac de Napoléon sur le champ de bataille de Wagram

References

1. ^ Benezit Dictionary of Artists, 2011. Oxford: Oxford University Press. 2011. ISBN 978-0-19-989991-3.
2. "Des soldats français délivrent l'évêque de Pavie assailli par les rebelles". louvre.fr. Archived from the original on 2021-04-11. Retrieved April 10, 2021.
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. doi:10.1215/00161071-26-2-281. S2CID 159512717 – via EBSCO.

External links

• Roehn's works in the Louvre
• Roehn's works in the British Museum

Media related to Adolphe Roehn at Wikimedia Commons

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