Antoine Louis François Sergent dit Sergent-Marceau
French printmaker and painter (1751-1847)
Antoine Louis François Sergent, called Sergent-Marceau (1751–1847) was a French painter and printmaker.
He was active during the French Revolution, and sat on the National Convention in 1792.
In 1789, Sergent worked with engraver Marie Louise Marceau-Desgraviers, sister of the revolutionary general François Séverin Marceau, on a project to create portraits of the French legislative assembly. Marceau later took the first name Emira (an anagram of Marie), and Sergent and Marceau married in 1795.
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