Pierre-Nicolas Legrand de Lérant

Pierre -Nicolas Legrand ( born March 29, 1758 in Pont- l'Évêque (Calvados ), † May 11 1829 in Bern ) was a French painter and draftsman.

Legrand received his first training from Jean -Baptiste Descamps and later possibly with Jacques -Louis David in Paris. In 1795 he fled to Bern. In Neuchâtel, he learned the literary woman Isabelle de Charrière know and illustrated some of their works. In 1796 he presented the first time histories and family pictures in the Paris Salon, demonstrably the family portrait of the Berners Franz Salomon Wyss. After a long stay in Paris, he returned back to Bern in 1815 and married in 1818, the pastor's daughter Sophie Salchli from Kirchberg.

Works

  • Niklaus Friedrich von Mülinen, 1820
  • The cloth of Mr. Brunner Family, 1796
  • Market Scene, 1795
  • La gloire de la France
  • Kunstmuseum Bern
  • Jegenstorf Castle
Jean-Baptiste Descamps Jacques-Louis David Museum of Fine Arts Berne
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