Pierre-Nicolas_Legrand_de_Lérant

Pierre-Nicolas Legrand de Lérant

Pierre-Nicolas Legrand de Lérant

French painter (1758–1829)


Pierre-Nicolas Sicot, known as Legrand de Lérant or de Sérant (Pont-l'Évêque, 1758 – Bern, 1829), was a French painter.

Pupil of Jean-Baptiste Descamps at the École régionale des beaux-arts de Rouen [fr], along with Beljambe and Lequeu, Legrand won a second extraordinary prize in drawing, at age only 15. In 1782, he went to the École nationale supérieure des Beaux-Arts.

c.1794, Legrand de Sérant departed for Bern, where he produced a variety of drawings for local notabilities and illustrated a novel by Isabelle de Charrière.

Legrand de Sérant was a member of the Academy of Lille.

Sources

  • Adolphe Siret, Dictionnaire historique et raisonné des peintres de toutes les écoles depuis les temps les plus reculés jusqu’à nos jours, Bruxelles, Périchon, 1844, 1856, p. 442.



Share this article:

This article uses material from the Wikipedia article Pierre-Nicolas_Legrand_de_Lérant, and is written by contributors. Text is available under a CC BY-SA 4.0 International License; additional terms may apply. Images, videos and audio are available under their respective licenses.