Marie Amélie Cogniet


Marie-Amélie Cogniet 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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