Léon Matthieu Cochereau, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death
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French painter
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Place of Birth: Montigny-le-Gannelon, Centre-Val de Loire, France
About Léon Matthieu Cochereau
- Léon Matthieu Cochereau (1793, Montigny-le-Gannelon - 30 August 1817) was a French painter.
- A student of David, he painted his master's studio in a painting now held at the Louvre [1].
- Another of his works is held at the Musée Antoine Vivenel.
- He died at sea of dysentery whilst going to Greece accompanied by his uncle Pierre Prévost, the panorama painter - the precise site of death was, according to the sources, "across from Bizerte, in sight of Athens, near the Isle of Cerigo, in the Ionian Sea.
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