Léon Cogniet

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The Egyptian Expedition Under the Command of Bonaparte, c. 1835
The Egyptian Expedition Under the Command of Bonaparte, c. 1835
Léon Cogniet, Scenes of July 1830, a painting alluding to the July Revolution of 1830.
Léon Cogniet, Scenes of July 1830, a painting alluding to the July Revolution of 1830.

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:


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This article incorporates text from the public domain 1907 edition of The Nuttall Encyclopædia.