Nicolas-Auguste Leisnier

Nicolas-Auguste Leisnier (1787-1858) was a French engraver specialising in burin.[1]

Bust of Rabelais by Leisnier, from an edition of Rabelais' complete works published in 1823.

Life

Born in Paris, he was a pupil and apprentice of Charles Samuel Girardet and Louis Michel Halbou. He specialised in burin and worked in the midst of the print-shop quarter at 22 rue du Cloître-Saint-Benoît in a shop-studio as (by his own description) a "printer in etching" - the building was demolished in 1855. He was made a chevalier de la Légion d'honneur in 1834 and died at home at 32 rue de Trozy in Clamart in 1858.[2]

Engravings
  • « Les Monuments de Paris », motifs for canvasses planned by Hippolyte Lebas and produced by Christophe-Philippe Oberkampf, Jouy-en-Josas, 1816-1818.
  • Voyage dans le Levant en 1817 et 1818, by M. le Comte de Forbin, Paris, Imprimerie royale, 1819.
  • Several plates for Description de l’Égypte, Paris, Panckoucke, 1821-1826 [2nd edition] - after drawings by Edme François Jomard and others.
  • Series of engravings of vases commissioned by Frederick William III of Prussia, 1822
  • « Rabelais » (collaboration with François Forster after Achille Devéria), Paris, Dalibon/Imprimerie de Jules Didot ainé, 1823.
  • La Fornarina, after Raphael, 1846.
  • Plates for « Monuments d'Orange » (Chalcographie du Louvre).
  • Plates for Histoire des usages funèbres et des sépultures des peuples anciens by Ernest Feydeau, Paris, Gide et J. Baudry, 1856-1858.

References
  1. (in French) Henri Beraldi, Les Graveurs du XIXe siècle : guide de l'amateur d'estampes modernes, Paris, L. Conquet, 1889, volume 9, p. 107-109.
  2. (in French)« Leisnier (Nicolas-Auguste) », in La Grande Encyclopédie : inventaire raisonné des sciences, des lettres et des arts, Paris, H. Lamirault, 1885, volume 21, p 1180 - online
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