1865 ca, Paris, FRANCE: The french painter of Romanticism and Neoclassicism LEON COGNIET (1794 - 1880). Historical and portrait painter. In 1812, he entered the Ecole des Beaux-Arts in Paris, where he studied under Pierre-Narcisse Guerin at the same time as Delacroix and Gericault. n 1817 he won the Prix de Rome and was a resident at the Villa Medici from 1817 to 1822. At first he painted in classical style, but later adopted the methods of the Romanticists