Léon Matthieu Cochereau

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

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.

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