Artist

Sébastien Le Clerc

Portrait of Sébastien Le Clerc

French

Sébastien Le Clerc is a French Romanticism artist. 4 works are cataloged here, principally at Victoria and Albert Museum.

Sébastien Leclerc or Le Clerc was an artist from the French province of the Three Bishoprics. 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.

Collections represented

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