Léon Matthieu Cochereau

Léon Matthieu Cochereau
Selfportrait in Châteaudun museum
Born	9 February 1793  Montigny-le-Gannelon
Died	30 August 1817  (aged 24) Ionian Sea
Resting place	Montigny-le-Gannelon

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

Biography

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

• 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.

Gallery

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  Léon Matthieu Cochereau, Studio of Jacques-Louis David, oil on canvas. 90 x 105 cm. Louvre, Paris, France
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  Léon Matthieu Cochereau, Pierre Prévost learning how to paint panoramas, oil on canvas, 105 x 130 cm, Chartres museum, Eure-et-Loir, France