About Marie-Amélie Cogniet
Lived 1798 – 1869 (aged 71). Marie-Amélie Cogniet was a French painter.
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, was included in the 1905 book Women Painters of the World.
Cogniet died in Paris.
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French painter (1798-1869)
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Marie-Amélie Cogniet was born on 5 April 1798 in Paris.
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Marie-Amélie Cogniet died on 29 April 1869 in Paris.
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Marie-Amélie Cogniet was a painter.
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