Pierre auguste cot signature theatre

Pierre Auguste Cot was a French painter who used his unique style of portraiture to give his viewers a glimpse into the lives of his subjects.

Oil Painting SignedOil on canvas, Le Printemps.

Oil Painting SignedOil on canvas, Le Printemps.

The Storm () “Oil on canvas, x cm” [Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, USA] -- Pierre Auguste Cot (French;.

He is considered a pioneer in Art Nouveau design.

In this commissioned portrait, as Marcel Proust observed, Renoir gave expression to the poetry of an elegant home and the beautiful dresses of our time.

Reconstruction of the theatre of Dionysus in Athens to the left above the spectators seats part of the enclosing colonnade in the foreground.

His works ranged from fiction to fact but always made a point to give his audience a glimpse into the humanity of his subjects. Having learned from the likes of William Adolphe Bouguereau and Alexandre Cabanel, Cot was able to perfect his execution of direct and vague storytelling.

Who Was Pierre Auguste Cot?

Pierre Auguste Cot was a French Academic Classic painter during the eighteen-hundreds.

He is best known for his works: Springtime (1873) and The Storm (1880), but has a multitude of other paintings that feature portraiture — his signature — as well as Classic subjects matters, like the Greek gods. Unfortunately, he died young, at the ripe age of forty-six leaving behind few works in what seems to have been a short artistic career, having only gotten into the Salon in his thir