Léon Cogniet
The Artist in His Room at the Villa Medici, Rome
A Woman from the Land of Eskimos
Maria Brignole-Sale Duchess of Galliera with her son Filippo
Jean Francois Champollion
The Polish Officer: Praga 1831
Joseph Maison, the 1st Battalion Grenadier of Paris in 1792 (1771-1840)
Nicolas Joseph Maison, Marshal of France (1771-1840)
Portrait of Maria Brignole-Sale De Ferrari with her son
Portrait of Madame Clicquot Ponsardin (1777-1866)
The French painter Achille Etna Michallon.
Louis Philippe d'Orléans, Duke of Chartres in 1792.
Oenone refused to rescue injured Pâris at the siege of Troy
Helen linerated by Castor and Pollux
Portraits of the Duchesse d'Uzes, born Talhouët and her eldest son, Jacques Emmanuel.
The Warning (Madame Cogniet and daughter)
A portrait of George Washington
Fireworks at Castel Sant'Angelo in Rome
The 1798 Egyptian Expedition Under the Command of Bonaparte
The Paris National Guard on its way to the Army, September 1792
Briseis returned to Achilles in his tent discovers the body of Patroclus
Self-portrait of Léon Cogniet in his studio at the Villa Medici, Rome.
Portrait of Theodore Gericault
Eskimo Sled
The Prix de Rome Winners of 1817
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Léon Cogniet (29 August 1794, Paris – 20 November 1880, Paris) was a French history and portrait painter. He is probably best remembered as a teacher, with over one hundred well-known students.
Biography
His father was a painter and wallpaper designer. In 1812, he enrolled at the École des Beaux-arts, where he studied with Pierre-Narcisse Guérin. He also worked in the studios of Jean-Victor Bertin. After failing an attempt to win the Prix de Rome in 1816, he won the following year with his depiction of "Helen Rescued by Castor and Pollux" and received a stipend to study at the French Academy in Rome until 1822. Before leaving, he had his first exhibition at the Salon.
In 1827, he created a series of murals on the life of Saint Stephen for the church of Saint-Nicholas-des-Champs. From 1833 to 1835, he painted a scene from Napoleon's expedition to Egypt on one of the ceilings at the Louvre. Between 1840 and 1860, he operated a popular painting workshop for women, directed by his sister Marie Amélie and one of his students, Catherine Caroline Thévenin (1813-1892), who later became his wife. After 1843, he concentrated almost entirely on teaching, with an occasional portrait. After 1855, he essentially gave up painting.
After 1831, he taught design at the Lycée Louis-le-Grand. He also taught at the École polytechnique from 1847 to 1861. In 1851, he was appointed a Professor at the École des Beaux-arts, a position he held until 1863, when he retired, slowly giving up his private students and becoming more reclusive .
He died forgotten in the 10th arrondissement of Paris in 1880 and is interred at Père-Lachaise.
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 (1843; Musée des Beaux-Arts de Bordeaux)
Scenes of July 1830
Portraits:
Maréchal Maison
Louis Philippe
M. de Crillon
Jean-François Champollion
Pupils
Among his numerous students were:
Félix-Joseph Barrias
Louis-Ernest Barrias
Émile Bayard
François-Léon Benouville
Émile Bin
Nils Blommér
Rosa Bonheur
Léon Bonnat
Alfred Boucher
Marie-Abraham Rosalbin de Buncey
Adolphe-Félix Cals
Henri Chapu
François Chifflart
Pierre Auguste Cot
Alfred Darjou
Alfred de Dreux
Alfred Dehodencq
Godefroy Durand
Louis Duveau
Augustin Feyen-Perrin
Claude Ferdinand Gaillard
Karl Girardet
Eugène Ernest Hillemacher
Jean-Paul Laurens
Jules Lefebvre
Diogène Maillart
Jean-Louis-Ernest Meissonier
Hugues Merle
Charles Louis Müller
Victor Nehlig
Dominique Papety
Henri Félix Emmanuel Philippoteaux
Paul Philippoteaux
Gustav Richter
Tony Robert-Fleury
Louis Rubio
Eugénie Salanson
Hippolyte Sebron
Charles Sellier
References
Rines, George Edwin, ed. (1920). "Cogniet, Leon". Encyclopedia Americana.
This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Wood, James, ed. (1907). "article name needed". The Nuttall Encyclopædia. London and New York: Frederick Warne.
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