Pierre-Nicolas Legrand de Lérant
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Pierre-Nicolas Sicot, known as Legrand de Lérant or de Sérant (Pont-l'Évêque, 1758 – Bern, 1829) was a French painter.
Pupil of Descamps at the fr , along with fr and Lequeu, Legrand won a second extraordinary prize in drawing, aged only 15. In 1782, he went to the école des Beaux-Arts de Paris.
Circa 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.
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A Good Deed is Never Forgotten (1794-1795) Dallas Museum of Art, oil on canvas 63 x 80 cm
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Joseph Cange, messenger of Prison Saint-Lazare, 1795
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Berner Alpen, ca. 1800
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- 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.
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