Florent le Comte (1655–1712), was a French writer and engraver. He wrote a comprehensive book about art ''Cabinet des singularitez'' which the historian

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used as a source for Dutch painters active in France, along with similar books on artists by

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and André Felibien.Florent le Comte as source
in ''De groote schouburgh der Nederlantsche konstschilders en schilderessen'' (1718) by

, courtesy of the Digital library for Dutch literature Though Houbraken quotes the French title, in his biographical sketch of Romeyn de Hooghe he includes a long citation in Dutch from the Dutch translation. According to the RKD his ''Cabinet des singularitez'' written in 1699 was translated into Dutch in 1708.Florent le Comte
in the

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Though he called himself a painter and sculptor, no works are known.

References

Cabinet des singularitez d'architecture, peinture, sculpture
Tome Troisieme, by Florent Lecomte, Lambert Marchant, Brussels, 1702
Het konst-cabinet der bouw-, schilder-, beeldhouw- en graveerkunde, of, Inleiding tot de kennis dier fraaije weetenschappen, vervat in de schilderyen, stand-beelden en prenten: behelzende, behalven een beknopte leevensbeschryving der aloude schilders en beeldhouwers, bennevens de catalogi hunner werken : verrykt met een verhandeling over het glas-schilderen, een vertoog over het etzen, en wat tot het leeren en oeffenen dier kundigheid vereist word en andere weetenswaardige zaaken
by Florent Le Comte, Frans de Bakker, C. V. Swinderen, Arnoldus Lobedanius, 1744, on

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Het konst-cabinet der bouw- schilder- beeldhouw- en graveerkunde
Volume II, by Florentyn le Comte, Dordrecht, 1761, on

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