Leon Cogniet

Leon Cogniet , born with Paris the August 29th 1794 and died in Paris the November 20th 1880, is a romantic painter and neo-classic French, portraitist and painter of history, known also for its Lithographie S.

Biography

Leon Cogniet enters in 1812 to the École of the Art schools of Paris, where he is the pupil of Pierre-Narcisse Guerin at the sides of Delacroix and Géricault. Its Helene delivered by Beaver and Pollux is worth the to him Prix of Rome in 1817 and it makes the same year its beginnings with the Salon. He is boarder of the Académie from France to Rome of 1817 with 1822.

In 1827, it carries out a series of paintings on the life of Saint Etienne for the church Saint-Nicolas-of-Fields of Paris, then it paints the Forwarding of Egypt under the orders of Bonaparte on one of the ceilings of the Musée of Louvre in 1833 - 1835. Its greater success comes to him in 1843 with Tintoret painting his/her dead daughter , after which it is devoted mainly to the portraits and teaching. He is professor of drawing to the Louis-the-Large Lycée and with the Polytechnic school and he teaches painting at the School of the Art schools to several generations of artists.

Leon Cognier had inter alia as pupils Leon Bonnat, Claude Ferdinand Gaillard, Jean-Paul Laurens, Évariste Vital Luminais, Jean-Louis-Ernest Meissonier, Charles Müller, Tony Robert-Fleury, Amédée Rosier, Theodore Auguste Rousseau.

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