Hippolyte Lecomte
French painter (1781–1857) / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Hippolyte Lecomte (28 December 1781, Puiseaux – 25 July 1857, Paris) was a French painter best known for large scale historical paintings and ballet designs. His wife, born Camille Vernet, was the sister of the painter Émile Jean-Horace Vernet. His son, Émile Vernet-Lecomte, was also a noted painter. The caricaturist Jean Ignace Isidore Gérard, better known as "J.J. Grandville", worked in Lecomte's studio.
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Born | Hippolyte Lecomte (1781-12-28)28 December 1781 |
Died | 26 July 1857(1857-07-26) (aged 75) |
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