# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/louis-august-le-clerc
# Generated: 2026-08-14T08:10:36.881Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/louis-august-le-clerc"
name: "Louis August le Clerc"
slug: "louis-august-le-clerc"
description: "Louis August le Clerc, also known as Louis-Augustin le Clerc, was a French-born sculptor working in Denmark. He was born in Metz, France to copperplate engraver Sebastian le Clerc and his wife Charlotte van den Kerckhove. He was summoned to Denmark at the age of 47, and lived out the rest of his life there as a royal sculptor to the Danish Court and as professor at the Royal Danish Academy of Art. He helped introduce French Rococo artistic ideals to Denmark."
tagline: "Danish sculptor (1688-1771)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Louis_August_le_Clerc.png?width=1200"
gender: "male"
category:
  name: "Artists"
  slug: "artists"
profileType:
  name: "Artist"
  slug: "artist"
birthDate: "1688-11-30"
deathDate: "1771-03-08"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           40.15
  momentum:             7.188732394366196
  historical:           7.670446666666666
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     50.00000000000001
  profileCompleteness:  60
  trendDirection:       "RISING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://sv.wikipedia.org/wiki/Louis_Auguste_Le_Clerc"
    title: "Louis Auguste Le Clerc"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%84%D9%88%D9%8A%D8%B3_%D8%A7%D9%88%D8%AC%D8%B3%D8%AA_%D9%84%D9%88_%D9%83%D9%84%D9%8A%D8%B1%D9%83"
    title: "لويس اوجست لو كليرك"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://da.wikipedia.org/wiki/Louis-Augustin_le_Clerc"
    title: "Louis-Augustin le Clerc"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Louis_August_le_Clerc"
    title: "Louis August le Clerc"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Louis_August_le_Clerc"
    title: "Louis August le Clerc"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Louis-Auguste_Le_Clerc"
    title: "Louis-Auguste Le Clerc"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://hu.wikipedia.org/wiki/Louis_August_le_Clerc"
    title: "Louis August le Clerc"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://no.wikipedia.org/wiki/Louis-Augustin_le_Clerc"
    title: "Louis-Augustin le Clerc"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%9B%D0%B5_%D0%9A%D0%BB%D0%B5%D1%80%D0%BA%2C_%D0%9B%D1%83%D0%B8-%D0%9E%D0%B3%D1%8E%D1%81%D1%82"
    title: "Ле Клерк, Луи-Огюст"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q2913661"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump