Stephen; Exploits of Alexander, Villa Torlonia; Battle of Amazons, Triumph of Bacchus, Four Elements, Villa Castel-Gandolfo; Fable of Psyche and Cupid, Parnassus, Torlonia Palazzo, Rome; Fable of Prometheus, Apollo followed by the Hours, Basilica of Savona.—Brockhaus, iv. 486; Larousse; L'Illustrazione italiana, 1875.
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COGNIET, LÉON, born in Paris, Aug. 29,
1794, died there,
Nov. 20, 1880. History
and portrait
painter, pupil of Guérin;
won the prix
de Rome in 1817.
Medals: 2d class,
1824; 1st class, 1855;
L. of Honour, 1828;
Officer, 1846; Prussian
Order pour le
mérite, 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); Marius
at Carthage, Massacre of the Innocents
(1824); Numa in the Grotto of Egeria;
Rape of Rebecca; Napoleon in Egypt, Paris
National Guard in 1792 (1836); Battle of
Rivoli, Episodes in Egyptian Campaign,
Versailles Museum; Tintoretto painting his
Dead Daughter (1843), Bordeaux Museum;
St. Stephen, St. Nicolas-des-Champs; Magdalen,
Madeleine, Paris.—Claretie, Peintres,
etc. (1882), 361; Larousse; Meyer, Gesch.,
439; Gaz. des B. Arts (1881), xxiii. 33.
COGNIET, Mme. LÉON, (née Catherine
Caroline Thévenin), born in Lyons, Oct. 23,
1813. History and genre painter; wife and
pupil of Léon 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); Virginia
(1848); St. Cecilia (1852); St. Geneviève
as a Child (1853).
COIGNARD, LOUIS, born in Mayenne
in 1812, died in 1883. Animal and landscape
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 Fighting
(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; Pasture
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); Cattle Resting, 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 delicacy of 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
Pæstum, one of his best works, is in the Munich
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 museums
and private collections of Belgium.
Order of Leopold, 1875. Works: Shaving
Day; Out with You! Throwing Snowballs;
Canary Fancier; Interrupted Meal; The
Blusterers (1875).—Müller, 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 Summonzio
the architect, who says that Colantonio
abandoned tempera for oils, which he
learned from Réné of Anjou, but that he
