Léon Matthieu Cochereau
French painter
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| Intro | French painter | |
| A.K.A. | Leon Matthieu Cocherau Léon Mathieu Cochereau Leon Matthieu Cochereau Léon-Mathieu Cochereau | |
| A.K.A. | Leon Matthieu Cocherau Léon Mathieu Cochereau Leon Matthieu Cochereau Léon-Mathieu Cochereau | |
| Places | France | |
| was | Painter | |
| Work field | Arts | |
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| Birth | 9 February 1793, Montigny-le-Gannelon, France | |
| Death | 30 August 1817Greece, Greece (aged 24 years) | |
| Star sign | Aquarius |
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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.