SwissArtGallery · Documented identity
Léon-Charles Cannicioni, a French painter born in 1879 and deceased in 1957, is also described as a landscape and genre painter. In October and November 1910, a work listed under the spelling “Canniccioni” appears in the exhibition of French art of the eighteenth, nineteenth and twentieth centuries at the Museum der bildenden Künste in Leipzig. The catalogue describes it as an oil painting entitled “Edith findet den Leichnam ihres Gatten Harald nach der Schlacht bei Hastings”: Edith discovers the body of her husband Harald after the Battle of Hastings.
This profile brings together identity references for Léon Charles Cannicioni and paintings, drawings and works on paper documented in auction catalogues.
1 references are documented at Artcurial Beurret Bailly Widmer. Each record links to its source; the amounts are not a general valuation of the artist’s work.
Oil on canvas
Muletier corse
huile sur toile
Catalogue period : 2016-06-22
Published result : 7296 CHF
Including buyer’s premium
Estimate : CHF 6000–8000
View the lot at the auction house ↗SwissArtGallery documentary note based on the cited sources. Titles, media and qualifications are provided in the profile language; the original catalogue wording remains available in each record.
Documentation updated : 2026-10-19
