Léon Matthieu Cochereau

Léon Matthieu Cochereau (1793, Montigny-le-Gannelon - 30 August 1817) was a French painter.

Léon Matthieu Cochereau
Selfportrait in Châteaudun museum
Born9 February 1793 Edit this on Wikidata
Montigny-le-Gannelon Edit this on Wikidata
Died30 August 1817 Edit this on Wikidata (aged 24)
Ionian Sea Edit this on Wikidata
Resting placeMontigny-le-Gannelon Edit this on Wikidata

Biography

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Student of David, he painted his master's studio in a painting now held at the Louvre. Another of his works is held at the Musée Antoine Vivenel. Several of his paintings are also in Chartres and Châteaudun museums, both in Eure-et-Loir department.

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.

References

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  • Procès verbaux de la Société archéologique d'Eure-et-Loir, Tome V, Chartres, 1876 (1873–1875), séance du 9 janvier 1873.
  • Hommes illustres de l'Orléanais
  • Jean Prévost, Notice historique sur Montigny-le-Gannelon, Châteaudun, 1852.
  • Camille Marcille, Notice sur Matthieu Cochereau, peintre beauceron, Chartres, 1875.
  • Louis du Chalard & Antoine Gautier, "Les panoramas orientaux du peintre Pierre Prévost (1764-1823)", in Orients, Bulletin de l'association des anciens élèves et amis des langues orientales, June 2010, p. 90-93.
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