COGMET ,- Stephen ; Exploits of Alexander, Villa Tor- Ionia ; Battle of Amazons, Triumph of Bac- chus, Four Elements, Villa Castel-Gandolfo ; Fable of Psyche and Cupid, Parnassus, Tor- Ionia Palazzo, Rome ; Fable of Prometheus, Apollo followed by the Hours, Basilica of Savona. Brockhaus, iv. 486 ; Larousse ; L11- lustrazione italiana, 1875. COGNIET, LEON, born in Paris, Aug. 29, 1794, died there, Nov. 20, 1880. His- tory and portrait painter, pupil of Guc- rin ; won the prix de Borne in 1817. Medals : 2d class, 1824; 1st class, 1855; L. of Honour, 1828; . Officer, 1846 ; Prus- sian Order pour le merite, 1865 ; member of Institute, 1849. His first pictures, though classical in style, show a realistic tendency. Founder of one of the best art schools in Paris. Works : Metabus, King of the Volscians (1822) ; Ma- rius at Carthage, Massacre of the Innocents (1824) ; Numa in the Grotto of Egeria ; Eape of Rebecca ; Napoleon in Egypt, Paris National Guard in 1792 (1836) ; Battle of Rivoli, Episodes in Egyptian Campaign, Versailles Museum ; Tintoretto painting his j Dead Daughter (1843), Bordeaux Museum; St. Stephen, St. Nicolas-des-Champs ; Mag- dalen, Madeleine, Paris. Clare tie, Peintres, etc. (1882), 361 ; Larousse ; Meyer, Gesch., 439 ; Gaz. des B. Arts (1881), xxiii. 33. COGNIET, Mine. LEON, (nee Catherine Caroline Thevenin), born hi Lyons, Oct. 23, 1813. History and genre painter ; wife and pupil of Leon Cogniet. Medals : 3d class, 1840 ; 2d class, 1843. Works : A Studio (1836); Bad Fellow (1837); Red Fish (1838); Prix de Rome (1840); Sick Girl (1843); Vir- ginia (1848); St. Cecilia (1852); St. Genevieve as a Child (1853). COIGNARD, LOUIS, born in Mayenne in 1812, died in 1883. Animal and land- scape painter ; pupil of Picot. Medals : 3d class, 1846 ; 1st class, 1848. Works: Mary in Desert (1838) ; Little Fisherman by Sea, Christ and Disciples at Emmaus, Sleep, Evening, Cattle in Woods (1842-1845); Cows on Borders of a Wood (1846); Bulls Fight- ing (1847); Drinking Place, Morning (1848); Woman watching Cows, The Bull, Cares of a Farmer's Wife, Morning Rest, Henri IV. 's Oak (1849-53), bought by State ; Morning Repose (1852), Luxembourg Museum ; Pas- ture in Holland, Valley of the Main (1855); During the Storm, Landscape with Animals (1857); Grass and Drinking Place in Valley of the Auge, Bulls Fighting, The Cow Pond (1859); Herd in Pasture (1861); Landscape in Normandy (1863); Herd at Edge of Forest, Cows in a Marsh (1873) ; Cows in a Belgian Forest (1874) ; Flock of Sheep, Morning in Pasture (1875) ;CattleResting, Drinking Place (1876) ; Cattle Resting in a Prairie (1877). COIGNET, JULES (LOUIS PHILIPPE), born in Paris, Dec. 2, 1798, died there April 1, 1860. Landscape painter, pupil of Bertin ; travelled in Italy and the East, and painted many pictures marked by poetical feeling and delicacyof light and shade effects. Also produced many water-colours and chalk drawings, and wrote a work on landscape painting. Medals : 2d class, 1842, 1848 ; L. of Honour, 1836. His Ruins of Temple of Psostum, one of his best works, is in the Mu- nich Gallery. Bryan (Graves). COL, DAVID, born in Antwerp, April 6, 1822. Genre painter, pupil of Antwerp Academy. His pictures, mostly on a small scale, are to be found in nearly all the mu- seums and private collections of Belgium. Order of Leopold, 1875. Works : Shaving Day ; Out with You ! Throwing Snowballs ; Canary Fancier ; Interrupted Meal ; The Blusterers (1875). MttUer, 109. COLANTONIO DEL FIORE, born in 1352 (?) died in 1444 (?) Neapolitan school. The question of the existence of this painter rests on a letter written in 1524 by Sum- monzio the architect, who says that Colan- tonio abandoned tempera for oils, which he learned from Runu of Aujou, but that he 311
