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Léon Cogniet
[French Academic Painter, 1794-1880]
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Léon Cogniet Works Online
Categorized & Annotated
Paintings in Museums and Public Art Galleries Worldwide:
 Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco NEW!
Louvre Museum Database, Paris
2 paintings and 36 drawings
Louvre Museum Graphic Art Database, Paris (in French) 
Many works on paper online
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City NEW! 
National Gallery of Art, Washington D.C. NEW!
Most but not all artists in the NGA database have works online
Réunion des Musées Nationaux, France (in French)
4 works online
Bilbao Fine Arts Museum, Spain
Sketch for The National Guard of Paris leaving to join the Army in 1792
Bowdoin College Museum of Art, Maine (Zoomable)
The Abduction of Rebecca by Brian de Bois-Guilbert, ca.1828
Cleveland Museum of Art, Ohio
Harvard University Art Museums, Massachusetts
Harvard have works in their collections, but unfortunately you have to type in the search yourself
Musée des Beaux-Arts de Bordeaux, France (in French)
Musée des Beaux-Arts de Rennes, France (in French)
(If the image is not clickable, click "Agrandir l'image" to enlarge the image)
Musee Magnin, Dijon, France
Museum Collection Database for the Region of Haute-Normandie, France
Palazzo Rosso, Genoa, Italy (in Italian)
Click the "right" arrow until you get to Sala 28. If the "zoom" version of the images does not come up, try this page instead.
The Wallace Collection, London, UK NEW!
National Art Databases and Museum Inventories:
Joconde Database of French Museum Collections (in French)
Art Market:
(e.g. records of past sales at auction; sites providing examples of the artist's signature)
Christie's Past Sale Archive
(database goes as far back as 1991; images go about as far back as 1999)
Sotheby's Sold Lot Archive
(database goes as far back as 1998; images where permitted by copyright go about as far back as 2001)
Pictures from Image Archives:
Leon Cogniet at The Art Renewal Center
Leon Cogniet at The Athenaeum 
Wikimedia Commons Image Database
World Visit Guide (formerly Insecula)
Bildindex der Kunst und Architektur (in German)
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Articles and Reference Sites:
RKD Netherlands Institute for Art History 
Union List of Artist Names (Getty Museum)
Reference sheet with basic information about the artist and pointers to other references.
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