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Lempereur, Louis-Simon.
(b Paris, 16 May 1728; d Paris, 6 April 1807). French engraver. He was a pupil of Pierre Aveline (ii). Having been appointed Graveur du Roi, he was approved (agréé) by the Académie Royale Peinture et de Sculpture in 1759 and received (reçu) in 1776. His oeuvre falls into three categories. He made individual prints, mostly after the works of contemporary painters, such as François Boucher, François de Troy, Pierre-Jacques Cazes, Carle Vanloo and Jean-Baptiste Marie Pierre. However, one of his most beautiful engravings was after Peter Paul Rubens: the Garden of Love (1769; Sjöberg, no. 128), 700 prints of which were sold on the day of publication. The pendant to it was the Spanish Feast after Anthonie Palamedesz (S 134).
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