Artist

Léon Cogniet

Portrait of Léon Cogniet
Portrait of Léon Cogniet

French, 1794–1880

Léon Cogniet was a French French Romanticism painter. 12 works are cataloged here, principally at Cleveland Museum of Art, most of them oil paintings. Léon Cogniet was born in Paris.

Léon Cogniet (29 August 1794 – 20 November 1880) was a French history and portrait painter. He is probably best remembered as a teacher, with more than one hundred students, some of them notable.

Works by Léon Cogniet

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