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    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...
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    student of Léon Cogniet, he is known for illustrating Victor Hugo's 1862 novel Les Misérables. Starting in 1853, Bayard was a student of Cogniet for five...
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    Marie-Amélie Cogniet (5 April 1798 – 29 April 1869) was a French painter and the sister of Léon Cogniet. Cogniet was born in Paris, France, as the sister...
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    He was both French and German by nationality. Schenck was a pupil of Léon Cogniet in France. He became well known for his landscapes and paintings of animals...
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    Bonnat worked the studios of the history painters Paul Delaroche and Leon Cogniet (1854) in Paris. Despite repeated attempts, he failed to win the prix...
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    particularly wrestling. Julian went to Paris, where he became a student of Léon Cogniet and Alexandre Cabanel, professor at the École des Beaux-Arts, without...
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    Hugues Merle was born in 1822 in La Sône. He studied painting with Léon Cogniet. Merle started exhibiting at the Salon (Paris) in 1847. He received second...
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    Clérisseau (1721–1820) François Clouet (1515–1572) Jean Clouet (1480–1541) Léon Cogniet (1794–1880) Alphonse Colas (1818–1887) Émile Colinus (1884–1966) Nicolas...
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    The white flag of the monarchy transformed into the Tricolore as a result of the July Revolution. Painting by Léon Cogniet (1830)...
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    family friend and a lover of horses. Later, he studied at the studio of Léon Cogniet. By this time, horses had become his favorite subject. His first exhibition...
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    École nationale supérieure des Beaux-Arts in 1852 and was a pupil of Léon Cogniet. He won the prestigious Prix de Rome with his The Death of Priam in 1861...
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    January 1894) was a French painter and lithographer. He was a student of Léon Cogniet. He was named "the Painter of the Sisters of Charity", and the E. Boudin...
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    the French Society of Orientalist Painters was founded in 1893, with Jean-Léon Gérôme as the honorary president; whereas in Britain, the term Orientalist...
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    was born at St. Malo in 1818, studied history and genre painting under Léon Cogniet in Paris, and afterwards visited Italy. He was successful in representing...
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    Jewish family. He studied in Paris in the École des Beaux-Arts and under Léon Cogniet, and followed his profession in that city until 1854, when he moved to...
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  • The Egyptian Expedition under the Orders of Bonaparte, painting by Léon Cogniet...
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    refugees in Avallon till 1832. He then attended painting studies held by Léon Cogniet. Kwiatkowski was a close friend to Adam Mickiewicz and Frédéric Chopin...
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    Louis Philippe in 1792, by Léon Cogniet (1834)...
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    The Restoration and the July Monarchy (1923) pp. 174–368. Newman, Edgar Leon, and Robert Lawrence Simpson. Historical Dictionary of France from the 1815...
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    l'ancienne Égypte, d'après les monuments (explanatory text to illustrations by Léon-Jean-Joseph Dubois). Paris: Firmin Didot. 1823. OCLC 743026987. Précis du...
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    French painter, known primarily for portraits and nudes. He studied with Léon Cogniet and Pierre-Paul Hamon [fr] at the École nationale supérieure des Beaux-Arts...
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    Lucas-Dubreton, J. The Restoration and the July Monarchy (1929). Newman, Edgar Leon, and Robert Lawrence Simpson. Historical Dictionary of France from the 1815...
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    French Academic style. Laurens was born in Fourquevaux and was a pupil of Léon Cogniet and Alexandre Bida. Strongly anti-clerical and republican, his work was...
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    Among the artists inspired to create works of art based on Atala were Léon Cogniet, Anne-Louis Girodet de Roussy-Trioson, Pierre-Jérôme Lordon [fr], Eugène...
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    Louis Philippe I with protruding bulge, painting by Léon Cogniet (1792)...
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    The Egyptian Expedition under the orders of Bonaparte, painting by Léon Cogniet, early 19th century...
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    studies with Ferdinand Georg Waldmüller and continued in Paris with Léon Cogniet. Felix is particularly well known for his portraits, but he also did...
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    Portrait of George Washington by Léon Cogniet...
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    painter. He was born in Paris, France, studied art at the studio of Léon Cogniet, and first exhibited his work at the Paris Salon of 1833. One of his...
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    Portrait of Madame Clicquot and her great-granddaughter Anne de Rochechouart-Mortemart by Léon Cogniet....
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