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2 unusual facts about Léon Matthieu Cochereau


Léon Matthieu Cochereau

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.

Louis Maurice Adolphe Linant de Bellefonds

One of the artists attached to the expedition having suddenly died, Léon Matthieu Cochereau, Linant was commissioned to replace him, drawing sites and ruins in Athens, Constantinople, Ephesus, Akka and Jerusalem for the first French panorama painter Pierre Prévost.



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