page_title: Sébastien Leclerc
section_title: Notable works
hierarchical_section_title: Sébastien Leclerc / Notable works
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context_page_description: Sébastien Leclerc or Le Clerc was a French artist from the Duchy of Lorraine. He specialized in subtle reproductive drawings, etchings, and engravings of paintings; and worked mostly in Paris, where he was counseled by the King's painter, Charles Le Brun, to devote himself entirely to engraving. Leclerc joined the Académie Royale de Peinture et de Sculpture in 1672 and taught perspective there. He worked for Louis XIV, being made "graveur du Roi", doing engraving work for the royal house. Leclerc also engaged in periodic work as a technical draftsman and military engineer.
  Of his reproductive engravings, the connoisseur and chronicler of artistic life, Pierre-Jean Mariette, wrote in his Abecedario:
  "If there has ever been an engraver who rendered himself celebrated in his profession, and who extended his capabilities beyond ordinary bounds, that is, without fear of contradiction: Sébastien Le Clerc".
context_section_description: Pratique de la Géométrie sur le papier et sur le terrain, Paris, Thomas Jolly, 1669;
  Nouveau système du monde conforme à l’écriture sainte, Paris, Giffard, 1706;
  Système de la vision fondé sur de nouveaux principes, Paris, Florentin Delaulne, 1712;
  Traité d'architecture avec des remarques et des observations très utiles pour les jeunes gens, qui veulent s'appliquer à ce bel art, Paris, Giffard, 1714.
caption: Pratica di geometria in carta e in campo per istruzione della nobile gioventù, 1746
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