Léon Cogniet

Léon Cogniet. Self-portrait ca. 1818, Musée des Beaux-Arts d'Orléans

The Egyptian Expedition Under the Command of Bonaparte, ceiling at the Louvre, 1835

Léon Cogniet, oil sketch for details of Scenes of July 1830, a painting alluding to the July Revolution

Léon Cogniet (29 August 1794 – 20 November 1880) was a French historical and portrait painter.

Biography

Cogniet was born in Paris. In 1812, he entered the École des Beaux-Arts in Paris, where he studied under Pierre-Narcisse Guérin at the same time as Delacroix and Géricault.^{[citation needed]} In 1817 he won the Prix de Rome and was a resident at the Villa Medici from 1817 to 1822.^{[citation needed]} His first picture of note was Marius among the Ruins of Carthage (1824). He decorated several ceilings in the Louvre and the Halle de Godiaque in the Hôtel de Ville, Paris, and a chapel in the church of Madeleine.^{[citation needed]} At first he painted in classical style, but later adopted the methods of the Romanticists.^{[citation needed]}

He died in Paris in 1880.

Selected works

History paintings:

• La Garde nationale de Paris part pour l’armée, Septembre 1792 (The Paris National Guard on its way to the Army, September 1792)
• Tintoretto painting his Dead Daughter
• Scenes of July 1830

Portraits:

• Maréchal Maison
• Louis Philippe
• M. de Crillon

Pupils

Among his numerous students were:

• Louis-Ernest Barrias
• Léon Bonnat
• Adolphe-Félix Cals
• Pierre Auguste Cot
• Charles Olivier De Penne
• Alfred Dedreux
• Alfred Dehodencq
• Armand Gautier
• Jean-Paul Laurens
• Jules Joseph Lefebvre
• Evariste Vital Luminais
• Raimundo de Madrazo y Garreta
• Jean-Louis-Ernest Meissonier
• Anna Lea Merritt
• Adrien Moreau
• Charles Louis Lucien Muller
• Victor Nehlig
• Henri Félix Emmanuel Philippoteaux^[1]
• Dominique Louis Papety
• Henryk Rodakowski
• Tony Robert-Fleury

References

1. ^ "Death of a French Painter" (PDF). The New York Times. November 10, 1884. http://query.nytimes.com/mem/archive-free/pdf?_r=1&res=9B07E0DA143FE533A25753C1A9679D94659FD7CF. 

•  "Cogniet, Leon". Encyclopedia Americana. 1920. 

This article incorporates text from the public domain 1907 edition of The Nuttall Encyclopædia.

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