Artist
Hippolyte Lecomte
French, 1781–1857
Hippolyte Lecomte was a French Romanticism artist. 5 works are cataloged here, principally at Palace of Versailles. Hippolyte Lecomte was born in Puiseaux.
Hippolyte Lecomte (French pronunciation:; 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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