Léon Matthieu Cochereau
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Léon Matthieu Cochereau, Studio of Jacques-Louis David, oil on canvas. 90 x 105 cm. Louvre, Paris. France
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.
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.
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