LESPINASSE (L[ouis] N[icolas] de)
Traité du Lavis des Plans, appliqué Principalement aux Reconnaissances Militaires.
Treatise on military sketching which offers to explain the techniques by which it is possible to render “… avec toute l’exactitude possible, sur les grandes échelles, un Terrain quelconque.”
Lespinasse was a noted landscape painter, specializing in views of Paris, his work characterized by its topographical accuracy and delicacy of technique.