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Leon Cogniet (1794-1880)

Aliases: Léon Cogniet

Professions: Painter

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    LÉON COGNIET PARIS 1794 - PARIS 1880

    LÉON COGNIET PARIS 1794 - PARIS 1880

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    LÉON COGNIET

    LÉON COGNIET

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    Léon Cogniet (1794-1880)

    Léon Cogniet (1794-1880)

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    Léon Cogniet Paris, 1794 - 1880 Académie d'homme sur un rocher Huile sur toile

    Léon Cogniet Paris, 1794 - 1880 Académie d'homme sur un rocher Huile sur toile

Leon Cogniet Biography

(b paris, 29 aug 1794; d paris, 20 nov 1880). french painter. he entered the ecole des beaux-arts in 1812, where he studied with pierre guérin and became friendly with théodore géricault, eugène delacroix, ary scheffer and henry scheffer (1798–1862), jean alaux (1786–1864) and xavier sigalon. he won the prix de rome in 1817 with helen freed by castor and pollux (paris, ecole n. sup. b.-a.). while in rome, he made his salon debut in 1817 with metabus, king of the volscians (chartres, mus. b.-a.), based on an incident from livy. a self-portrait from this period, the first letter from home (cleveland, oh, mus. a.), shows him in his room at the villa medici but focuses on the view from his window of the sunlit italian landscape.

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