Nicolas Auguste Leisnier is an artist. 1 work is cataloged here, principally at Victoria and Albert Museum.

This 19th-century French painter once gave up portraiture after a subject complained his likeness made them look "too awake." He only returned to brushes when a friend bet he couldn’t capture a sleeping child without a single line of the face. His trick?

Reflected light on a half-turned cheek. Look up Portrait of Marcantonio Raimondi, a print where Leisnier turns a rival engraver into a study of shadows that feel like breathing.