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Léon Cogniet

1794 - 1880

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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 one hundred notable students. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Léon Cogniet is the 612th most popular painter (up from 747th in 2019), the 1,868th most popular biography from France (up from 2,193rd in 2019) and the 118th most popular French Painter.

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Among PAINTERS

Among painters, Léon Cogniet ranks 612 out of 2,023. Before him are Oswald Achenbach, Paula Rego, Cornelis van Haarlem, Vlaho Bukovac, Karl von Piloty, and Benvenuto Tisi. After him are Edmund Leighton, Arshile Gorky, Jules Breton, Hans Burgkmair, Frans Masereel, and Francesco del Cossa.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1794, Léon Cogniet ranks 13. Before him are Theobald Boehm, Wilhelm Müller, Carl Friedrich Philipp von Martius, Józef Bem, Ignaz Moscheles, and William Whewell. After him are Johann Heinrich von Mädler, Eduard Rüppell, Eilhard Mitscherlich, Ami Boué, Jacques Collin de Plancy, and Mirza Shafi Vazeh. Among people deceased in 1880, Léon Cogniet ranks 14. Before him are Emperor Norton, Michel Chasles, Ned Kelly, Anselm Feuerbach, James Craig Watson, and Nell Arthur. After him are Bettino Ricasoli, Ole Bull, Peter Johann Nepomuk Geiger, Sara Forbes Bonetta, Édouard Séguin, and Frederick VIII, Duke of Schleswig-Holstein.

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In France

Among people born in France, Léon Cogniet ranks 1,868 out of 6,770. Before him are Claude Françoise de Lorraine (1612), Victor-François, 2nd duc de Broglie (1718), Charles Paul de Kock (1793), Jean Picard (1620), Prince Sadruddin Aga Khan (1933), and Yo-Yo Ma (1955). After him are Nicholas, Crown Prince of Montenegro (1944), Henry de Montherlant (1895), René Char (1907), Hubert Lyautey (1854), Henri de la Rochejaquelein (1772), and Barbara (1930).

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Among PAINTERS In France

Among painters born in France, Léon Cogniet ranks 118. Before him are Charles-André van Loo (1705), Jules Bastien-Lepage (1848), Constant Troyon (1810), Pierre Auguste Cot (1837), Eugène Carrière (1849), and Pierre-Paul Prud'hon (1758). After him are Jules Breton (1827), Jean Ignace Isidore Gérard Grandville (1803), Jean-Paul Laurens (1838), Louis-Léopold Boilly (1761), Adrien Manglard (1695), and Henri-Edmond Cross (1856).

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