Léon Cogniet canvas prints & artprints

Léon Cogniet : biography

Léon Cogniet, is a french painter born in 1794 in Paris, France and who died in 1880 in 10th arrondissement of Paris, France. Léon Cogniet belonged to the neoclassicism, romanticism, orientalism art style. He mainly worked during the classical period in the 19 century.

Léon Cogniet : his main artworks

Léon Cogniet is famous for the following art works : antoine-philippe de la trémoille, prince de talmont (1765-1794), général vendéen, portrait de jean-françois champollion, égyptologue, détail de l'expédition d'egypte sous les ordres de bonaparte... which are numerous illustrations of his favorite subject of work : portrait, history, world culture... In order to stare at his work in a museum or gallery, you need to go to musée d'art et d'histoire, cholet, france, louvre, paris, france, musée et domaine national de versailles et de trianon, versailles, france, musée de l'armée, paris, france. The art work of Léon Cogniet are, indeed, mainly kept in musée d'art et d'histoire, cholet, france, louvre, paris, france, musée et domaine national de versailles et de trianon, versailles, france, musée de l'armée, paris, france. Muzéo offers high quality canvas prints & artprints of the main artworks made by Léon Cogniet to embellish your home or your office.

Léon Cogniet : his life as an artist

Léon Cogniet began his artist training in Beaux-Arts de Paris, France. Then Léon Cogniet continue his training and study with Pierre-Narcisse Guérin, Jean-Victor Bertin. Léon Cogniet and Marie-Amélie Cogniet, Catherine-Caroline Thévenin are related and belong to the same family of artists. He influenced the work of some other artists such as Henryk Rodakowski. Among his students and apprentices, we noted that he taught Alfred Dehodencq, Edgar Degas, Rosa Bonheur, Jean-Louis-Ernest Meissonier, Jean-Paul Laurens, Diogène Maillart, Gustave Mohler, Jules Valadon, Charles Louis Müller, Auguste Boulard, Evariste Vital Luminais, Augustin Feyen-Perrin, Jules Joseph Lefebvre, Tony Robert-Fleury, Lucien Melingue, Gustave-Henri Delhumeau, François-Nicolas Chifflart, Alexandre Ségé, Pierre-Emile Berthélemy, Louis Duveau, Louis Alexandre Dubourg, Theodore Melingue, Catherine-Caroline Thévenin, Philippe Jolyet, Nélie Jacquemart, Henri Félix Emmanuel Philippoteaux, Edmond Lebel, Pierre-Auguste Cot, Léon Bonnat, Théophile Gide, Paul-Dominique Phillipoteaux, Joseph-Fortuné-Séraphin Layraud.

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