Léon Matthieu Cochereau (1793, Montigny-le-Gannelon

Montigny-le-Gannelon

Montigny-le-Gannelon is a commune in the Eure-et-Loir department in northern France.-Population:-References:*...

 - 30 August 1817) was a French painter. A student of David

Jacques-Louis David

Jacques-Louis David was an influential French painter in the Neoclassical style, considered to be the preeminent painter of the era...

, he painted his master's studio in a painting now held at the Louvre

Louvre

The Musée du Louvre – in English, the Louvre Museum or simply the Louvre – is one of the world's largest museums, the most visited art museum in the world and a historic monument. A central landmark of Paris, it is located on the Right Bank of the Seine in the 1st arrondissement...

 http://www.photo.rmn.fr/cf/htm/CSearchZ.aspx?o=&Total=3&FP=74120203&E=22S39UC6HPOG&SID=22S39UC6HPOG&New=T&Pic=3&SubE=2C6NU0NZIZIZ. Another of his works is held at the Musée Antoine Vivenel

Musée Antoine Vivenel

The Musée Antoine Vivenel is the municipal museum of the city of Compiègne, located at 2, rue d'Austerlitz, 60200 Compiègne. It was founded in 1839, following an important gift by Antoine Vivenel.-Paintings:...

. He died at sea of dysentry whilst going to Greece accompanied by his uncle Pierre Prévost

Pierre Prévost (painter)

Pierre Prévost was the first French panorama painter.Born in the city of Montigny-le-Gannelon, he was a student of Pierre-Henri de Valenciennes...

, the panorama painter - the precise site of death was, according to the sources, "across from Bizerte

Bizerte

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, in sight of Athens

Athens

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, near the Isle of Cerigo

Kythira

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, in the Ionian Sea

Ionian Sea

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