Nicolas-Auguste Leisnier
Nicolas-Auguste Leisnier was a French engraver specialising in burin.Life
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 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.Engravings
- « Les Monuments de Paris », motifs for canvasses planned by Hippolyte Lebas and produced by Christophe-Philippe Oberkampf, Jouy-en-Josas, 1816-1818.
- Voyage dans le Levant en 1817 et 1818, by M. le Comte de Forbin, Paris, Imprimerie royale, 1819.
- Several plates for Description de l’Égypte, Paris, Panckoucke, 1821-1826 - after drawings by Edme François Jomard and others.
- Series of engravings of vases commissioned by Frederick William III of Prussia, 1822
- « Rabelais », Paris, Dalibon/Imprimerie de Jules Didot ainé, 1823.
- La Fornarina, after Raphael, 1846.
- Plates for « Monuments d'Orange ».
- Plates for Histoire des usages funèbres et des sépultures des peuples anciens by Ernest Feydeau, Paris, Gide et J. Baudry, 1856-1858.
