The Abdication of Doge Foscari, 1850, Musée des Augustins Toulouse Messe en mer

Louis-Jean-Noël Duveau, a French painter, who was born at St. Malo in 1818, studied

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Léon Cogniet 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 notable students. Biography He was born in Paris. His father was a painter ...

in Paris, and afterwards visited Italy. He was successful in representing scenes of fisher-life in his native country. He died in Paris in 1867. In the Lille Museum is his ''

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and Andromeda,'' painted in 1865.

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