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Nicolas-Jacques Conté

1755 - 1805

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Nicolas-Jacques Conté (4 August 1755 – 6 December 1805) was a French painter, balloonist, army officer, and inventor of the modern pencil. He was born at Saint-Céneri-près-Sées (now Aunou-sur-Orne) in Normandy and distinguished himself for his mechanical genius, which was of great avail to the French army in Egypt. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Nicolas-Jacques Conté has received more than 130,883 page views. His biography is available in 15 different languages on Wikipedia. Nicolas-Jacques Conté is the 975th most popular painter (down from 898th in 2019).

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Among painters, Nicolas-Jacques Conté ranks 975 out of 1,421. Before him are Barbara Kruger, Henri Le Sidaner, Polidoro da Caravaggio, Nikolai Yaroshenko, Lawrence Weiner, and Ugolino di Nerio. After him are Toros Roslin, Stanisław Szukalski, Coppo di Marcovaldo, Evel Knievel, Antonio López García, and Wilhelm Marstrand.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1755, Nicolas-Jacques Conté ranks 26. Before him are Friedrich Wilhelm Freiherr von Bülow, Quatremère de Quincy, Bertrand Barère, Infante Antonio Pascual of Spain, John Flaxman, and Gaspard de Prony. After him are Anacharsis Cloots, John Marshall, Princess Charlotte of Hesse-Darmstadt, Samuel Thomas von Sömmerring, Jean-Pierre Claris de Florian, and Alemdar Mustafa Pasha. Among people deceased in 1805, Nicolas-Jacques Conté ranks 15. Before him are Maria Theresa of Savoy, Frederica Louisa of Hesse-Darmstadt, Mihrişah Sultan, Abraham Hyacinthe Anquetil-Duperron, William Paley, and Aloys I, Prince of Liechtenstein. After him are Conrad Moench, Pehr Osbeck, William Petty, 2nd Earl of Shelburne, Louis-Jean-François Lagrenée, Franz Xaver von Wulfen, and Josephus Nicolaus Laurenti.

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