• Was a also known as Legrand de Lérant or de Sérant.
• He was a French painter.
• Legrand was born in Pont-l'Évêque, Normandy.
• He was a Pupil of Jean-Baptiste Descamps at the École régionale des beaux-arts de Rouen, along with Beljambe and Lequeu.
• Legrand won a second extraordinary prize in drawing, at age only 15.
• In 1782, he went to the École nationale supérieure des Beaux-Arts.
• Circa 1794, Legrand de Sérant departed for Bern in Switzerland. • There he produced a variety of drawings for local notabilities and illustrated a novel by Isabelle de Charrière.
• Legrand de Sérant was a member of the Academy of Lille.
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