Marie-Amélie Cogniet (5 April 1798 – 29 April 1869) was a French painter and the sister of Léon Cogniet.

Marie Amélie Cogniet
Portrait of Marie Amélie Cogniet by her brother Léon Cogniet, 1817-1818 (musée des beaux-arts d'Orléans)
Born	5 April 1798 Paris, France
Died	29 April 1869(1869-04-29) (aged 71) Paris, France
Nationality	French
Known for	Portrait painting

Life and work

Cogniet was born in Paris, France, as the sister of the painter and art teacher Léon Cogniet, whose works she copied. She specialized in portraiture and showed works at the Paris Salon from 1831.

Her copy of her brother's painting Portrait of Adélaide d'Orléans, then located at Chantilly, was included in the 1905 book Women Painters of the World.[1]

Cogniet died in Paris.

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[fr] Marie-Amélie Cogniet