Pierre Auguste Cot

French painter

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Pierre Auguste Cot
A bust of Cot at Pierre Auguste Cot Memorial, Bédarieux
Born	Pierre Auguste Cot (1837-02-17)17 February 1837 Bédarieux, Hérault, France
Died	2 August 1883(1883-08-02) (aged 46) Paris, France
Resting place	Père Lachaise Cemetery
Nationality	French
Known for	Painting
Notable work	Springtime (1873) The Storm (1880)
Movement	Academic Classicism
Awards	Chevalier of the Legion of Honour

Pierre Auguste Cot ([pjɛʁ o.ɡyst kɔt];^[1] 17 February 1837 – 2 August 1883) was a French painter of the Academic Classicism school.

Life and career

Cot was born in Bédarieux, Hérault, and initially studied at l'Ecole des Beaux-Arts in Toulouse before going to Paris. He studied under Leon Cogniet, Alexandre Cabanel and William-Adolphe Bouguereau. In 1863 he made a successful debut at the Salon, and from the 1870s, his popularity grew quickly.

Cot enjoyed the patronage of the academic sculptor Francisque Duret, whose daughter he married, and of Bouguereau, with whom he had also worked. Bouguereau painted a portrait of Cot's daughter, Gabrielle. Bouguereau had dined with the Cot family to celebrate Gabrielle's marriage to an architect named Zilin. The artist made a gift of the painting to the wife of Duret, Gabrielle's grandmother.^[2]

Cot won various prizes and medals, and in 1874 was made Chevalier of the Legion of Honour.

He died in Paris at the age of 46. He is buried at the Père Lachaise Cemetery.^{[citation needed]}

Works

He created several works of lasting popularity, including Springtime, featuring two young lovers sitting upon a swing, and The Storm. Both these paintings are on display at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City; The Storm belongs to the museum while Le Printemps is owned privately.

Cot also was renowned for his portraits, which made up the majority of his work. The more enduring figurative work, such as The Storm, is comparatively rare. Shortly after his death at the age of forty-six (2 August 1883), a subscription was undertaken for a commemorative monument to the artist, which was erected at Bédarieux in 1892.

Selected works

Dionysia (1870), Chi-Mei Museum, Taiwan
Ophelia (1870)
The Gypsy or La Bohémienne (1871)
Springtime or Le Printemps (1873), Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City
The Storm or L'Orage (1880), Metropolitan Museum of Art^[3]
The Reading Light or La Liseuse (about 1880)
Portrait of Madame Mas (1882)
Mireille (1882), Musée Fabre, Montpellier
Charity for My Sister, Wolverhampton Art Gallery

Students

Ellen Day Hale (1855–1940)
Anna Elizabeth Klumpke (1856–1942)

Gallery

Ophelia, 1870
Girl with Basket of Oranges and Lemons, 1871
Springtime, 1873
Mireille Giving Alms at Saint-Trophime, 1882
Saint Elizabeth of Hungary Curing the Sick, 1883

Notes

^ Rubin, James Henry (1979). "Pierre-Auguste Cot's "The Storm"". Metropolitan Museum Journal. 14: 191–200. doi:10.2307/1512746. JSTOR 1512746. S2CID 193079291.
^ Sotheby's catalogue notes and provenance. The portrait has been known variously as Tête de jeune fille ("Head of a Young Girl"), Portrait of Gabrielle Drienza, Portrait de Madame Z, and Head of [Mme] Ailin, Gabrielle Cot.
^ "Metropolitan Museum of Art - Pierre-Auguste Cot: The Storm (87.15.134)". Metmuseum.org. 2012-07-27. Retrieved 2012-08-18.