Léon Cogniet - Tintoretto Painting His Dead Daughter (1843)
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Léon Cogniet (1794-1880)
"Métabus et Camille"
In Virgil's Aeneid, Camilla is the daughter of King Metabus and Casmilla.
Driven from his throne, Metabus is chased into the wilderness by armed Volsci, his infant daughter in his hands. The river Amasenus blocked his path, and, fearing for his child's welfare, Metabus bound her to a spear. He promised Diana that Camilla would be her servant, a warrior virgin. He then safely threw her to the other side, and swam across to retrieve her. The baby Camilla was suckled by a mare, and once her "first firm steps had [been] taken, the small palms were armed with a keen javelin; her sire a bow and quiver from her shoulder slung." She was raised in her childhood to be a huntress and kept the companionship of her father and the shepherds in the hills and woods.
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The massacre of the Innocents, 1824
Léon Cogniet
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Léon Cogniet (French, 1794-1880)
Une Femme de brigand italien
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Attributed to Léon Cogniet (1794-1880)
Portrait of a Man.c.1820.
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Portrait de profil du général Bonaparte
Léon Cogniet
vers 1828-1833
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The Massacre of the Innocents
Léon Cogniet
1824
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Léon Cogniet - Self Portrait, c.1818
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.
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Léon Cogniet - Tintoretto painting his dead daughter. First sketch. 1843.
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Antoine Philippe de la Trémoille, Prince de Talmond, Vendéen general (Léon Cogniet, 1826)
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The 1798 Egyptian Expedition Under the Command of Bonaparte
by Léon Cogniet
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Léon Cogniet - A Woman from the Land of Eskimos (1826)
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Au Louvre-Lens, il y avait une expo fort intéressante : “Champollion - La Voie des Hiéroglyphes”, sur l’homme, son époque, l’image de l’Egypte en Europe avant l’Egyptologie....
- volumes de "La Description de l'Egypte”
- Léon Cogniet - "Napoléon Bonaparte dirigeant les travaux des savants en Egypte”
- Victor-Jean Nicolle - "Vue du Louvre sous une arche du Pont-Neuf”
- Jean-François Champollion - notes, 1806
- Victorine Rumilly-Genève - “Portrait de la Famille Berriat-Saint-Prix”
- épigramme d'Arrianos (v.170 apr. J-C.) sur une griffe du Sphinx de Giza
- Bernard Picart - "Statue de Memnon", gravure dans ''Le Temple des Muses'' d'Antoine de Beaumarchais
- id. que 1
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Autoportrait (1818) by Léon Cogniet
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'The Massacre of the Innocents' by Léon Cogniet
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Léon Cogniet, Scene of the Massacre of the Innocents, 1824, oil on canvas, 261.3 x 228.3 cm, Museum of Fine Arts of Rennes, Rennes, France.
Today is Holy Innocents' Day, recalling the massacre ordered by Herod. So, I wanted to share this painting, cause it's such a unique take on the famous art history theme "The Massacre of the Innocents."
The paintings that I was used to seeing depicted the actual massacre. There are babies being murdered, and mothers screaming and begging, like the ones by Rubens (left) and Reni (right).
But this one offers another pov. Here is a mother hiding from the chaos as she covers her son's mouth so that they don't hear them. But she's looking at us terrified as if she fears that we are going to tell the soldiers about them.
It's terrifying.
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