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
Chantilly may refer to:
Places
France
* Chantilly, Oise, a city located in the Oise department
** US Chantilly, a football club
* Château de Chantilly, a historic château located in the town of Chantilly
United States
*Chantilly, Miss ...
, was included in the 1905 book ''
Women Painters of the World''.
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
Cogniet died in
Paris.
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Sources
Biography
1798 births
1869 deaths
Painters from Paris
19th-century French painters
French women painters
19th-century French women artists
Sibling artists
19th-century women painters
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