Adolphe Roehn

Adolphe Roehn
Born
Adolphe Eugène Gabriel Roehn

March 5, 1780
DiedOctober 19, 1867 (aged 87)
Malakoff, France
NationalityFrench
Known forpainting, printmaking
ChildrenJean 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. 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.

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