Sébastien Le Clerc (engraver)

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Sébastian Le Clerc

Sébastien Le Clerc, the Elder (also Leclerc ) (born September 26, 1637 in Metz , † October 25, 1714 in Paris ) was an etcher and engraver from Lorraine .

Life

Pratica di geometria in carta e in campo per istruzione della nobile gioventù , 1746

His father, Laurent Le Clerc (1590–1695) was a goldsmith in Metz. He learned the rudimentary knowledge of drawing and engraving from his father and the coppersmith Claude Bouchard. His first works are from 1654/55. His first important series was The Life of St Benedict and Les Modes de Metz in 1658/59 .

He also studied geometry, perspective and mathematics in Paris and in 1660 became a military engineer for the Lorraine governor, Marshal Henri de La Ferté-Senneterre

In 1665 he went to Paris and made the acquaintance of Charles Lebrun . Jean-Baptiste Colbert put him in charge of the tapestry manufacture . From 1672 he was professor of perspective at the Académie royale de peinture et de sculpture .

He had three sons:

  • Sébastien Le Clerc the Younger (1676–1763) worked for Gobelin.
  • Louis-Auguste Le Clerc (1699–1771) trained as a sculptor with Antoine Coysevox , worked in Denmark from 1735 and became a professor at the Kongelige Akademi for de Skonne Kunster .
  • Jacques-Sebastien Le Clerc (1734–1785) became a painter and from 1778 taught at the Royal Academy of Painting.

Works

Books

  • All kinds of academic figures . Weigel, Augsburg approx. 1700. ( digitized version )
  • Traité D'Architecture. Avec Des Remarques Et Des Observations Tres-Utiles Pour les Jeunes Gens, qui veulent s'appliquer à ce bel Art . 2 volumes, Paris 1714.

Stitches

La Colère / The Wrath (1696)
  • Fights of Alexander
  • The Achievements of Louis XIV (in thirteen parts)
  • May tapestries
  • The Council of Nicaea
  • The Arc de Triomphe of the Porte Saint-Antoine
  • The great Pierre du Louvre
  • L'Apotheosis of Isis
  • The passion
  • The signs of passion , according to Brun,
  • Lamentations of the Greeks and Romans
  • The medals, coins and currencies from France

Web links

Commons : Sébastien Leclerc  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ LE CLERC, Sébastien I Biography. In: lib-art.com. Retrieved January 6, 2015 .
  2. ↑ SEBASTIEN LECLERC: Biography you graveur Sébastien Leclerc. In: adlitteram.free.fr. Retrieved January 6, 2015 .
  3. ↑ Michèle Ménard: Une histoire des mentalités religieuses aux XVIIe et XVIIIe siècles. Editions Beauchesne, 1980, ISBN 978-2-701-01014-4 , p. 424. Restricted preview in the Google book search
personal data
SURNAME Le Clerc, Sébastien
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Leclerc, Sebastien
BRIEF DESCRIPTION French eraser and engraver
DATE OF BIRTH September 26, 1637
PLACE OF BIRTH Metz
DATE OF DEATH October 25, 1714
Place of death Paris