Pierre L'Enfant (painter)
The Lauffeldt Bataille
Pierre L'Enfant (1704 – 23 June 1787) was a French painter.
Born at Anet, L'Enfant was Charles Parrocel's student and was admitted to the Académie de peinture et de sculpture in 1745. His specialties were battle scenes and landscapes. He exhibited from 1741 to 1771.
L'Enfant married Marie Charlotte Leullier and was the father of Pierre (Peter) Charles L'Enfant, designer of Washington, D.C. He died in the Gobelins district of Paris.
Sources
- Adolphe de Riquet, Anet, son passé, son état actuel, Paris, Benjamin Duprat, 1860, p. 284.
External links
- (French) Pierre Lenfant in Joconde database.
This Wikipedia entry relies heavily on the French Wikipedia entry, which was accessed for translation on 8 January 2008.
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