Florent le Comte
Illustration — "Cabinet des singularitez d’architecture, peinture, sculpture, et graveure", 1699 Florent le Comte (1655–1712), was a French writer and engraver. He wrote a comprehensive book about art Cabinet des singularitez which the historian Arnold Houbraken used as a source for Dutch painters active in France, along with similar books on artists by Roger de Piles and André Felibien. Though Houbraken quotes the French title, in his biographical sketch of Romeyn de Hooghe he includes a long citation in Dutch from the Dutch translation.
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Florent le Comte
Florent le Comte · Public domain
- Born
- 1655
- Died
- 1712
- Nationality
- France
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- art historian · printmaker · painter · sculptor
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Illustration — "Cabinet des singularitez d’architecture, peinture, sculpture, et graveure", 1699 Florent le Comte (1655–1712), was a French writer and engraver. He wrote a comprehensive book about art Cabinet des singularitez which the historian Arnold Houbraken used as a source for Dutch painters active in France, along with similar books on artists by Roger de Piles and André Felibien. Though Houbraken quotes the French title, in his biographical sketch of Romeyn de Hooghe he includes a long citation in Dutch from the Dutch translation.
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According to the RKD his Cabinet des singularitez written in 1699 was translated into Dutch in 1708. Though he called himself a painter and sculptor, no works are known.
Florent le Comte is recorded as art historian, printmaker, painter and sculptor.
Title print of Florent le Comte's Cabinet of Curiosities of Architectue, Painting, Sculpture, and Engraving. Drawn by L.M. Dumenil and engraved by Bernard Picart, with caption "It is for you, o queen, to decide what our labours are to achieve" from Aeolus, god of the winds, in the first book of the Aeneid
Bernard Picart
Uriuntur ab uno
Frans de Bakker (fl. 1736-1767) · https: printsec=frontcover hl=nl source=gbs_ge_summary_r cad=0#v=onepage q f=true
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1655
Florent le Comte born.
1712
Florent le Comte died.
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Le Comte, Florent, Oxford Art Online, 2003
Florent Le Comte et la gravure, Nouvelles de l'estampe, 2018
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