Léon Matthieu Cochereau

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 dysentry 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, juin 2010, p. 90-93.