Marie Amélie Cogniet
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. References Footnotes Sources Biography 1798 births 1869 deaths Painters from Paris 19th-century French painters French women painters 19th-century French women artists Sibling artists