Hippolyte Lecomte

Visual Artist

1781 – 1857

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Who was Hippolyte Lecomte?

Hippolyte Lecomte was a French painter best known for large scale historical paintings and ballet designs. His wife, born Camille Vernet, was the sister of the painter Émile Jean-Horace Vernet; the charicaturist Jean Ignace Isidore Gérard, better known as "J.J. Grandville", worked in Lecomte's studio. His son, Charles Emile Hippolyte Lecomte-Vernet, was also a noted painter.

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Born
Dec 28, 1781
France
Died
Jul 25, 1857

Submitted
on July 23, 2013

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