Marie Amélie Cogniet

Marie Amélie Cogniet
Portrait of Marie Amélie Cogniet by her brother Léon Cogniet, 1817-1818 (musée des beaux-arts d'Orléans)
Born5 April 1798
Paris, France
Died29 April 1869(1869-04-29) (aged 71)
Paris, France
NationalityFrench
Known forPortrait painting
Portrait of Adélaide d'Orléans

Marie-Amélie Cogniet (5 April 1798 – 29 April 1869) was a French painter and the sister of Léon Cogniet.

Life and work

Cogniet was born in Paris, France, as the sister of the painter and art teacher Léon Cogniet, whose works she copied. She specialized in portraiture and showed works at the Paris Salon from 1831.

Her copy of her brother's painting Portrait of Adélaide d'Orléans, then located at Chantilly, was included in the 1905 book Women Painters of the World.[1]

Cogniet died in Paris.

References

Footnotes

  1. ^ Women painters of the world, from the time of Caterina Vigri, 1413-1463, to Rosa Bonheur and the present day, by Walter Shaw Sparrow, The Art and Life Library, Hodder & Stoughton, 27 Paternoster Row, London, 1905

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