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.
Léon Cogniet. Self-portrait, c. 1818
Helen Rescued by Castor and Pollux, 1817
Massacre of the Innocents, 1824
Scenes of July 1830 is an oil painting by the French artist Léon Cogniet, from 1830. Today the painting is in the collection of the Musée des Beaux-Arts, in Orléans.
Léon Cogniet
…Tintoretto painting his dead daughter (1843; Musée des Beaux-Arts de Bordeaux) Scenes of July 1830 (1830). The day after the "Three Glorious Days" of the 1830 Revolution, the painter depicts the white flag of the restoration of the monarchy (on the…
Léon Cogniet. Scene of July 1830, 1830