Léon Cogniet

1794–1880 · Romanticism

Léon Cogniet 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.

25 paintings

• The Artist in His Room at the Villa Medici, Rome (1817)
• A Woman from the Arctic (1826)
• Esquisse pour l'église de la Madeleine : Sainte Madeleine au sépulcre (1842)
• Flemish farrier
• Portrait of Marie-Amélie Cogniet (1817)
• Massacre of the Innocents (1824)
• Portrait de la veuve Clicquot, née Ponsardin et de son arrière petite-fille, Anne de Mortemart (1860)
• Selbstporträt (1817)
• Toits et collines au coucher du soleil (1850)
• Bataille du Mont Thabor, 16 avril 1799 (1837)
• The National Guard of Paris Departs for the Army (1834)
• Scene of July 1830 (1830)
• Battle of Heliopolis (1837)
• The Italian Brigand's Wife (1825)
• Fireworks at Castel Sant' Angelo in Rome
• The Artist in His Room at the Villa Medici, Rome (1817)
• Louis Philippe Victor Leopold, Prince Royal of Belgium (1833-34) (1834)
• Portrait of a Young Arab Chief
• A Woman from the Land of Eskimos (1826)
• Portrait of a Gentleman (1820)
• Louis-Philippe d'Orléans, then Duke of Chartres (1834)
• Nicolas-Joseph Maison, Marshal of France (1834)
• Antoine Philippe de la Trémoille, prince de Talmont, général vendéen (1826)
• The 1798 Egyptian Expedition Under the Command of Bonaparte (1835)
• Portrait of Champollion (1790-1832) (1831)