Hippolyte Lecomte

Hippolyte Lecomte (French pronunciation: [ipɔlit ləkɔ̃t]; 28 December 1781, Puiseaux – 25 July 1857, Paris) 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.

His son, Émile Vernet-Lecomte, was also a noted painter.

The caricaturist Jean Ignace Isidore Gérard, better known as "J.J. Grandville", worked in Lecomte's studio.

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