Florent le Comte

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"Cabinet des singularitez d’architecture, peinture, sculpture, et graveure", 1699

Florent le Comte (1655–1712), was a French writer and engraver.

Biography[edit]

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.[1] 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.[1]

According to the RKD his Cabinet des singularitez written in 1699 was translated into Dutch in 1708.[2] Though he called himself a painter and sculptor, no works are known.[2]

References[edit]

  1. ^ a b (in Dutch) Florent le Comte as source[permanent dead link] in De groote schouburgh der Nederlantsche konstschilders en schilderessen (1718) by Arnold Houbraken, courtesy of the Digital library for Dutch literature
  2. ^ a b Florent le Comte in the RKD