Pierre-Nicolas Sicot, known as Legrand de Lérant or de Sérant ( Pont-l'Évêque, 1758 –

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, 1829), was a French painter. Pupil of

Jean-Baptiste Descamps Jean-Baptiste Descamps (; August 28, 1714 – June 30, 1791) was a French writer on art and artists, and painter of village scenes. He later founded an academy of art and his son later became a museum curator. Biography Descamps was born in Dun ...

at the , along with Beljambe and Lequeu, Legrand won a second extraordinary prize in drawing, at age only 15. In 1782, he went to the

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. Circa 1794, Legrand de Sérant departed for

, 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. File:Good deed legrand.jpg, ''A Good Deed is Never Forgotten'' (1794-1795) Dallas Museum of Art, oil on canvas 63 x 80 cm File:Joseph Change IMG 2332.JPG, '' Joseph Cange, messenger of

Prison Saint-Lazare Saint-Lazare Prison was a prison in the 10th arrondissement of Paris, France. History Originally a leprosarium was founded on the road from Paris to Saint-Denis at the boundary of the marshy area of the former River Seine bank in the 12th c ...

'', 1795 Musée de la Révolution française File:Pierre-Nicolas Legrand de Lérant "Berner Alpen".jpg, ''Berner Alpen'', ca. 1800

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Adolphe Siret Adolphe Siret (July 15, 1818 – January 6, 1888) was a Belgian historian, biographer, essayist, poet, biographer, writer and man of letters.1758 births 1829 deaths 18th-century French painters French male painters 19th-century French painters 19th-century French male artists 18th-century French male artists {{France-painter-18thC-stub