Pierre Auguste Cot

Music By Apocalyptica: One (Instrumental Version of Metallica’s One) Spring (Le Printemps) (1873) - Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City The Storm (La Tempête), (1880) - Metropolitan Museum of Art The Reading light (La Liseuse), (about 1880) Mireille (1882) - Musée Fabre, Montpellier Dionysia, (1870) - Chi-Mei Museum, Taiwan Ophelia, (1870) A Bather The Cavaliers Visit Young Street Musicians Little Lord Fauntleroy Girl With Basket of Oranges & Lemons The Gypsy (La Bohémienne), (1871) Pierre Auguste Cot Pierre Auguste Cot (17 February 1837 -- July 1883) was a French painter of the Academic Classicism school. He was born in Bédarieux, 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. From the 1870s, his popularity grew quickly. In 1874 he was made Chevalier of the Legion of Honour. He created several works of lasting popularity, including Le Printemps, featuring two young