Pierre Auguste Cot (1837-1883) was a French painter who produced many works under the influence of European academies of art.
References
- Cot's 1880 painting The Storm, or La Tempête, appears in Don't Eat the Pictures during a transitional scene in which the Met Museum guard (played by Paul Dooley) adjusts his glasses at the moment Oscar the Grouch walks by in his can, and Prince Sahu's invisible cat Tamhet sneaks by.