Pierre Auguste Cot

(1837–1883) fransk målare

Pierre Auguste Cot (France, 1837–1883) is listed in the catalogue as a painter. By year of birth, Pierre Auguste Cot belongs to the chapter ‘Impressionism’ in this site’s history of art.

Pierre Auguste Cot was born in Bédarieux and died in Paris. Pierre Auguste Cot trained at Beaux-Arts de Paris and Institut supérieur des arts de Toulouse. The teachers included Léon Cogniet, Alexandre Cabanel, and William-Adolphe Bouguereau. Wikidata associates Pierre Auguste Cot with academic art. Pierre Auguste Cot was awarded Knight of the Legion of Honour. The students included Gustan Le Sénéchal de Kerdréoret and Anna Elizabeth Klumpke.

The best-known works include ‘The Storm’ and ‘Springtime’. The works belong mainly to the genre portrait. The catalogue has 18 works by Pierre Auguste Cot with free images. The dated works span the years 1850–1882. Works by Pierre Auguste Cot are held by several collections, among them Metropolitan Museum of Art, Musée Fabre, Chi-Mei Museum, and Towneley Hall Art Gallery And Museum. Wikidata links 5 works to movements covered in the chapter ‘Realism’.

Contemporary artists in the same chapter include Émile Bayard, Vincent Lerche, Petr Nikolaevich Gruzinsky, Nikolai Dmitrievich Dmitriev-Orenburgsky, and Alfred Thompson Bricher.

• Impressionism
• Springtime
• The Storm