Sébastien Leclerc
Visual Artist
1637 – 1714
Who was Sébastien Leclerc?
Sébastien Leclerc or Sébastien Le Clerc was a French artist from the Duchy of Lorraine. He specialized in subtle reproductive drawings, etchings, and engravings of paintings; and worked mostly in Paris, where he was counseled by the King's painter, Charles Le Brun, to devote himself entirely to engraving. Leclerc joined the Académie Royale de Peinture et de Sculpture in 1672 and taught perspective there. He worked for Louis XIV, being made "graveur du Roi", doing engraving work for the royal house. Leclerc also engaged in periodic work as a technical draftsman and military engineer.
Of his reproductive engravings, the connoisseur and chronicler of artistic life, Pierre-Jean Mariette, wrote in his Abecedario:
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- Born
- Sep 26, 1637
Metz - Also known as
- Sebastien Le Clerc
- Sébastien Le Clerc, the Elder
- Nationality
- France
- Lived in
- Metz
- Died
- Oct 25, 1714
Paris
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on July 23, 2013
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