Adolphe Roehn


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