Pehr (Pierre) Eberhard Cogell, Gentleman at a Gustavian bureau and notes & lady at a Gustavian writing desk.

Gentleman at a Gustavian bureau and notes & lady at a Gustavian writing desk

A pair. Relined canvas, oval each 46 x 37.5 cm. Contemporary gilded frames.

Alkuperä - Provenienssi

Bukowski Auktioner, auction 542, 28 November - 1 December 2006, lot 384.

Muut tiedot

Pehr (Pierre) Eberhard Cogell, born in 1734 in Stockholm and died on 21 January 1812 in Lyon, was a Swedish-French artist. In his hometown of Stockholm, Cogell was a pupil of Jacques-Philippe Bouchardon and Pierre Hubert L'Archevêque at the Royal Academy of Fine Arts. He later studied under Gustaf Lundberg. He received financial support from the Swedish state and studied at the academy in Copenhagen from 1763 to 1764 and with Joseph Marie Vien in Paris from 1764 to 1766. In 1769, he settled in Lyon, where he became a teacher at the city's drawing school and a state painter. He spent the remainder of his life in Lyon.

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