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Léon Cogniet (1794-1880)
“Self-portrait” (ca. 1818)
Oil on canvas
Romanticism
Located in the Musée des Beaux-Arts d’Orléans, Orléans, France

Cogniet was a French history and portrait painter. He is best remembered as a teacher, with over one hundred well-known students including.