{{Short description|French painter (1780–1867)}} {{Infobox person | name = Adolphe Roehn | birth_name = Adolphe Eugène Gabriel Roehn | birth_date = {{Birth date|1780|03|05}} | birth_place = Paris, France | death_date = {{Death date and age|1867|10|19|1780|03|05}} | death_place = Malakoff, France | 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 Salon of 1799 to 1866, winning a second class medal at the Salon of 1819.<ref name=":0">{{Cite book|title=Benezit Dictionary of Artists, 2011|publisher=Oxford University Press|year=2011|isbn=978-0-19-989991-3|location=Oxford}}</ref> 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.<ref>{{Cite web|title=Des soldats français délivrent l'évêque de Pavie assailli par les rebelles|url=https://collections.louvre.fr/en/ark:/53355/cl020015219|url-status=live|access-date=April 10, 2021|website=louvre.fr|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210411045139/https://collections.louvre.fr/en/ark:/53355/cl020015219 |archive-date=2021-04-11 }}</ref> 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).<ref>{{Cite journal|last=O'Brien|first=David|date=2003|title=Propaganda and the Republic of the Arts in Antoine-Jean Gros's Napoléon Visiting the Battlefield of Eylau the Morning after the Battle|url=|journal=French Historical Studies|volume=26|issue=2|pages=292|doi=10.1215/00161071-26-2-281 |s2cid=159512717 |via=EBSCO}}</ref>
Like his son, Jean Alphonse Roehn, he taught drawing at the Louis-Legrand School.<ref name=":0" />
== Gallery == <gallery widths="170" heights="170" perrow="3"> File:RoehnHaiti.jpg|''The Swearing in of President Boyer at the Palace of Haiti'', ca. 1818, Clark Art Institute, Williamstown Adolphe-Eugène-Gabriel Roehn - Country Fair - 1955.844 - Clark Art Institute (cropped).tiff |''Country Fair'' File:Tilsitz 1807.JPG|''The Meeting of Napoleon I and Tsar Alexander I at Tilsit'', 1808 File:Napoleon bivouac Wagram.jpg|''Napoleon's Bivouac on the Battlefield of Wagram'', 1810 </gallery>
== References == {{Reflist}}
== External links ==
* [https://collections.louvre.fr/en/recherche?author%5B0%5D=1946 Roehn's works] in the Louvre * [https://www.britishmuseum.org/collection/term/BIOG63243 Roehn's works] in the British Museum {{commons-inline}}
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