Sebastien Leclerc I. Sebastien Leclerc or 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 Academie 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: If there has ever been an engraver who rendered himself celebrated in his profession, and who extended his capabilities beyond ordinary bounds, that is, without fear of contradiction: Sébastien Le Clerc. Sébastien Leclerc was born in 1637 in Metz; the son of Laurent Leclerc, a local goldsmith and merchant, who taught his son the rudiments of his trade.
His first artistic efforts were favorably received in his birthplace, where he engraved a city view in 1650; four screens in 1654; and the Life of Saint Benedict in 38 scenes in 1658. Le Clerc went to Paris in 1665, where he pursued a continuing interest in geometry. Leclerc's illustrated Géométrie Pratique was published in Paris in
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 Academie 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: If there has ever been an engraver who rendered himself celebrated in his profession, and who extended his capabilities beyond ordinary bounds, that is, without fear of contradiction: Sébastien Le Clerc. Sébastien Leclerc was born in 1637 in Metz; the son of Laurent Leclerc, a local goldsmith and merchant, who taught his son the rudiments of his trade.
His first artistic efforts were favorably received in his birthplace, where he engraved a city view in 1650; four screens in 1654; and the Life of Saint Benedict in 38 scenes in 1658. Le Clerc went to Paris in 1665, where he pursued a continuing interest in geometry. Leclerc's illustrated Géométrie Pratique was published in Paris in
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