Hippolyte Lecomte

Rohan Road combat, 29 July 1830.
Hippolyte Lecomte
Born
Hippolyte Lecomte

(1781-12-28)28 December 1781
Died26 July 1857(1857-07-26) (aged 75)

Hippolyte Lecomte (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.