Military bivouac in front of a castle – Circa 1820.
 
Oil on canvas signed lower left.
Dimensions: 60 x 73 cm – with frame: 75 x 88 cm.
 The painter gives us here a scene of the daily life of the military rather than a combat scene. The atmosphere is relaxed; the soldiers are eating and warming themselves around a fire at the foot of a castle.
In the background a beautiful panoramic view of the valley and the sky allows us to take in the whole landscape.
 Adolphe Roehn began painting historical scenes in a self-taught manner, without a master, then later specialized in genre and portrait painting.
He appeared at the Paris salons from 1799 to 1866. 
In 1831, he ran a drawing and painting studio for women.
He won the silver medal in the competition at the Salon de peinture et de sculpture in 1810 with Le lendemain de la bataille d'Eylau, commissioned by the Prince of Neufchâtel; then the gold medal at the Salon in 1819. He also won two other medals at the exhibitions in Lille in 1824 and Douai in 1826.
 

The Battle of Marengo, 1801, in collaboration with M. Gadbois
Soldiers' halt, 1804. (reproduced by lithographs)
Interview between Napoleon I and Alexander I on the Niemen. June 25, 1807, 1808.
French and Russian military hospital in Marienburg. June 1807, 1808 (interpreted in engraving by Friedrich Schroeder (1768-1839)).
Living Denon returning the remains of Le Cid and Chimène to their tombs, 1809.
The day after the Battle of Eylau, 1809.
Napoleon's bivouac on the battlefield of Wagram. Night of July 5-6, 1809, 1810 (interpreted in engraving by Heinrich Guttenberg).
Bonaparte receives the flags taken from the enemy at Millesimo. April 16, 1796, 1812.
Entry of the French army into Danzig. May 27, 1807, 1812.
Louis XVI, at the abode of the blessed, receives the Duke of Enghien (1814).
1830, Museum of Fine Arts of Tarbes
Battle at Gillette, October 19, 1793 1.
Capture of the Perulle camp. April 10, 1793, 1836.
Entry of the French army into Chambéry. September 25, 1792, 1837.

 
Museums: Paris, Marmottan Museum; Avignon; Le Havre; Versailles.