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    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...
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    student of Léon Cogniet, he is known for illustrating Victor Hugo's 1862 novel Les Misérables. Starting in 1853, Bayard was a student of Cogniet for five...
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    Bonnat worked the studios of the history painters Paul Delaroche and Leon Cogniet (1854) in Paris. Despite repeated attempts, he failed to win the prix...
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    He was both French and German by nationality. Schenck was a pupil of Léon Cogniet in France. He became well known for his landscapes and paintings of animals...
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    Marie-Amélie Cogniet (5 April 1798 – 29 April 1869) was a French painter and the sister of Léon Cogniet. Cogniet was born in Paris, France, as the sister...
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    family friend and a lover of horses. Later, he studied at the studio of Léon Cogniet. By this time, horses had become his favorite subject. His first exhibition...
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    particularly wrestling. Julian went to Paris, where he became a student of Léon Cogniet and Alexandre Cabanel, professor at the École des Beaux-Arts, without...
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    École nationale supérieure des Beaux-Arts in 1852 and was a pupil of Léon Cogniet. He won the prestigious Prix de Rome with his The Death of Priam in 1861...
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    The white flag of the monarchy transformed into the Tricolore as a result of the July Revolution. Painting by Léon Cogniet (1830)...
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    the French Society of Orientalist Painters was founded in 1893, with Jean-Léon Gérôme as the honorary president; whereas in Britain, the term Orientalist...
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