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

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- Name
- Marie Amélie Cogniet
- Born
- 5 April 1798
- Birthplace
- Paris, France
- Died
- 29 April 1869
- Known for
- Portrait painting
- Nationality
- France
- Occupation
- painter
- Teachers
- Léon Cogniet
- Languages
- French
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Marie-Amélie Cogniet (5 April 1798 – 29 April 1869) was a French painter and the sister of Léon Cogniet.
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Training under Léon Cogniet is recorded. The recorded working language is French. Work by Marie-Amélie Cogniet is recorded in the collections of Condé Museum, Palais des Beaux-Arts de Lille, Musée des Beaux-Arts d'Orléans, Palace of Versailles and Musée de l'Histoire de France.

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Marie-Amélie Cogniet

Dans un décor d'atelier, une fillette joue avec un mannequin dénudé. Sur le mur du fond, derrière l’enfant qui joue avec le mannequin, figure une étude pour le Massacre des Innocents de Léon Cogniet.
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• Name — Marie Amélie Cogniet • Born — 5 April 1798 • Birthplace — Paris, France • Died — 29 April 1869 • Place of death — Paris, France • Known for — Portrait painting • Illustration — Portrait of Adélaide d'Orléans
Life and work
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. Cogniet died in Paris.
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1798
Marie-Amélie Cogniet born at Paris.
1869
Marie-Amélie Cogniet died at Paris.
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- 1.in Charles Gabet, article "Léon Cogniet", Dictionnaire des artistes de l’école française, au , Paris, 1831, .
- 2.Voir la fiche Marie-Amélie Cogniet, dans The National Museum of Woman in the Arts (en ligne).
- 3.Archives de Paris Acte de décès dressé au 10 arrondissement le 29 avril 1869, vue 14 / 31
- 4.Portrait de Mme Adélaïde d'Orléans. www.musee-conde.fr.
- 5.Le Temps des passions. Collections romantiques des musées d'Orléans. musée des Beaux-Arts. 1997. 2-910173-07-0.
- 6.Le Temps des passions. Collections romantiques des musées d'Orléans. musée des Beaux-Arts. 1997. 2-910173-07-0.
- 7.Le Temps des passions. Collections romantiques des musées d'Orléans. musée des Beaux-Arts. 1997. 2-910173-07-0.
- 8.Le Temps des passions. Collections romantiques des musées d'Orléans. musée des Beaux-Arts. 1997. 2-910173-07-0.
- 9.Le Temps des passions. Collections romantiques des musées d'Orléans. musée des Beaux-Arts. 1997. 2-910173-07-0.
- 10.Le Temps des passions. Collections romantiques des musées d'Orléans. musée des Beaux-Arts. 1997. 2-910173-07-0.
- 11.Le Temps des passions. Collections romantiques des musées d'Orléans. musée des Beaux-Arts. 1997. 2-910173-07-0.
- 12.Le Temps des passions. Collections romantiques des musées d'Orléans. musée des Beaux-Arts. 1997. 2-910173-07-0.
- 13.Nathalie Buyssens. Tableau de Marie-Amélie Cogniet - Portrait de Madame Adélaïde. Région Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes, Inventaire général du patrimoine culturel. 2021.
- 14.Liste dressée à partir de la base Salons, sauf mention contraire.
- 15.Catalogue des tableaux et objets d'art exposés dans le Musée Colbert, pendant le mois de décembre 1829, 2e exhibition. H. Gaugain et Cie. 1829.
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Condé Museum, Palais des Beaux-Arts de Lille, Musée des Beaux-Arts d'Orléans and Palace of Versailles
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