Nicolas-Auguste Leisnier
Illustration — Bust of Rabelais by Leisnier, from an edition of Rabelais' complete works published in 1823. Nicolas-Auguste Leisnier (1787-1858) was a French engraver specialising in burin.
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Nicolas-Auguste Leisnier
- Born
- 1787 · Paris.
- Died
- 1858 · Clamart.
- Nationality
- France
- Occupation
- engraver
- Honours
- Knight of the Legion of Honour
- Languages
- French
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Illustration — Bust of Rabelais by Leisnier, from an edition of Rabelais' complete works published in 1823. Nicolas-Auguste Leisnier (1787-1858) was a French engraver specialising in burin.
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Life
Born in Paris, he was a pupil and apprentice of Charles Samuel Girardet and Louis Michel Halbou. He specialised in burin and worked in the midst of the print-shop quarter at 22 rue du Cloître-Saint-Benoît in a shop-studio as (by his own description) a "printer in etching" - the building was demolished in 1855. He was made a chevalier de la Légion d'honneur in 1834 and died at home at 32 rue de Trozy in Clamart in 1858.
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• « Les Monuments de Paris », motifs for canvasses planned by Hippolyte Lebas and produced by Christophe-Philippe Oberkampf, Jouy-en-Josas, 1816-1818. • Voyage dans le Levant en 1817 et 1818, by M. le Comte de Forbin, Paris, Imprimerie royale, 1819. • Several plates for Description de l’Égypte, Paris, Panckoucke, 1821-1826 [2nd edition] - after drawings by Edme François Jomard and others. • Series of engravings of vases commissioned by Frederick William III of Prussia, 1822 • « Rabelais » (collaboration with François Forster after Achille Devéria), Paris, Dalibon/Imprimerie de Jules Didot ainé, 1823. • La Fornarina, after Raphael, 1846. • Plates for « Monuments d'Orange » (Chalcographie du Louvre). • Plates for Histoire des usages funèbres et des sépultures des peuples anciens by Ernest Feydeau, Paris, Gide et J. Baudry, 1856-1858.
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1787
Nicolas-Auguste Leisnier born at Paris.
1858
Nicolas-Auguste Leisnier died at Clamart.
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