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Last Name Leclerc (cont.)
Given Name Sébastien
alt. Names S. L. ; Le Clerc ; (continuation of entry 1520)
Marriage with one of the daughters of a royal dyer named Vandenkerchoven in 1673
Children six sons and four daughters ; among them the painter Sébastien Leclerc "the Younger" (1676-1763)
Year born 1637 in Metz, France
Year died 1714
Place of death Paris ?
Father's occupation local goldsmith and merchant Laurent Leclerc (1590-1695)
Relatives
Education taught by his father; counseled by the King's painter, Charles Le Brun, to devote himself entirely to engraving
Country of Activity France
Worked for astronomer Jean Domonique / Giandomenico Cassini (1625-1712): drawings of the Moon (1671-1679) ; Géométrie Pratique (1668) ;
Patronage Académie Royale de Peinture et de Sculpture (member since 1672) ; Louis XIV (named "graveur du Roi" (attached to the Cabinet du Roi) ;
Collaborators
Techniques astronomical, mathematical, architectural, perspectival, and technical drawing and copperplate engraving ;
Sample(s) http://brunelleschi.imss.fi.it/galileopalazzostrozzi/object/GiandomenicoCassiniOriginalDrawingsOfTheMoon.html ;
Archival sources www.leidenuniv.nl/fsw/verduin/stathist/huygens/acad1666/lunardraw.htm ; http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/S%C3%A9bastien_Leclerc_(1637-1714) ;
Published sources AKL ; Bryan ;
other French draftsman & engraver, who went to Paris in 1665, where he pursued a continuing interest in geometry. See also entry 1520 for further information
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