Nicolas-Auguste Leisnier

Nicolas-Auguste Leisnier (1787-1858) was a French engraver specialising in burin.

[1] Born in Paris, he was a pupil and apprentice of Charles Samuel Girardet and Louis Michel Halbou.

He specialised in burin and worked in the midst of the print-shop quarter at 22 rue du Cloître-Saint-Benoît in a shop-studio as (by his own description) a "printer in etching" - the building was demolished in 1855.

He was made a chevalier de la Légion d'honneur in 1834 and died at home at 32 rue de Trozy in Clamart in 1858.

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Bust of Rabelais by Leisnier, from an edition of Rabelais' complete works published in 1823.