{{Short description|French writer and engraver (1655–1712)}} {{More footnotes needed|date=February 2023}} thumb|right|"Cabinet des singularitez d’architecture, peinture, sculpture, et graveure", 1699 '''Florent le Comte''' (1655–1712), was a French writer and engraver.
He wrote a comprehensive book about art ''Cabinet des singularitez'' which the historian Arnold Houbraken used as a source for Dutch painters active in France, along with similar books on artists by Roger de Piles and André Felibien.<ref name=Houbraken>{{in lang|nl}} [https://www.dbnl.org/tekst/houb005groo01_01/houb005groo01_01_0006.php Florent le Comte as source] in ''De groote schouburgh der Nederlantsche konstschilders en schilderessen'' (1718) by Arnold Houbraken, courtesy of the Digital library for Dutch literature</ref> 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.<ref name=Houbraken/>
According to the RKD his ''Cabinet des singularitez'' written in 1699 was translated into Dutch in 1708.<ref name=RKD>[https://rkd.nl/en/explore/artists/424018 Florent le Comte] in the RKD</ref> Though he called himself a painter and sculptor, no works are known.<ref name=RKD/> {{commons category|Florent le Comte}}
==References== {{reflist}} *[https://books.google.com/books?id=4t5OAQAAIAAJ Cabinet des singularitez d'architecture, peinture, sculpture], Tome Troisieme, by Florent Lecomte, Lambert Marchant, Brussels, 1702 * [https://archive.org/details/hetkonstcabinetd02leco 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 archive.org *[https://books.google.com/books?id=-dQ9AAAAcAAJ Het konst-cabinet der bouw- schilder- beeldhouw- en graveerkunde], Volume II, by Florentyn le Comte, Dordrecht, 1761, on Google books
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