A Woman from the Arctic

Léon Cogniet painted ‘A Woman from the Arctic’ in 1826. The medium is oil on fabric. The dimensions are not recorded. Cleveland, Ohio.

The painting is housed in the Cleveland Museum of Art. It is classified as a 19th-century French work.

Cogniet was a French history and portrait painter. He taught over one hundred students, some of whom became notable.

Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, Ohio, https://clevelandart.org/art/1980.249