Léon Cogniet
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Léon Cogniet (August 29, 1794 – November 20, 1880) was a French painter.
Cognet 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. He was a resident at the Villa Medici, in Rome, from 1817 to 1822.
A romantic painter, his main subjects were history and portraits, and in 1817 he won the Prix de Rome.
He died in Paris in 1880.
[edit] Selected works
- La Garde nationale de Paris part pour l’armée, Septembre 1792 (The Paris National Guard on its way to the Army, September 1792)
- Tintoret painting his Dead Daughter
- Scenes of July 1830
[edit] Pupils
Among his numerous students were:
- Louis-Ernest Barrias
- Léon Bonnat
- Pierre Auguste Cot
- 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
- Charles Louis Lucien Muller
- Dominique Louis Papety
- Tony Robert-Fleury
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