Pierre-Nicolas Legrand de Lérant

Pierre-Nicolas Sicot, known as Legrand de Lérant or de Sérant (Pont-l'Évêque, 1758 – Bern, 1829) was a French painter.

Pupil of Descamps at the École régionale des beaux-arts de Rouen, along with Pierre Beljambe and Lequeu, Legrand won a second extraordinary prize in drawing, aged only 15. In 1782, he went to the école des Beaux-Arts de Paris.

Circa 1794, Legrand de Sérant departed for Bern, where he produced a variety of drawings for local notabilities and illustrated a novel by Isabelle de Charrière.

Legrand de Sérant was a member of the Academy of Lille.

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  A Good Deed is Never Forgotten (1794-1795) Dallas Museum of Art, oil on canvas 63 x 80 cm

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  Joseph Cange, messenger of Prison Saint-Lazare, 1795

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  Berner Alpen, ca. 1800

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• Adolphe Siret, Dictionnaire historique et raisonné des peintres de toutes les écoles depuis les temps les plus reculés jusqu’à nos jours, Bruxelles, Périchon, 1844, 1856, p. 442.