About Florent le Comte
Lived 1655 – 1712 (aged 56–57). Florent le Comte was a French art historian, printmaker, painter and sculptor.
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. Though he called himself a painter and sculptor, no works are known.
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Who was Florent le Comte?
French writer (1655-1712)
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Florent le Comte was born in 1655.
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Florent le Comte died in 1712.
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Florent le Comte was an art historian, printmaker, painter and sculptor.
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Florent le Comte was French.
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