Antoine Léon Morel-Fatio

Born: 1810

Death: 1871

Biography:

Antoine Léon Morel-Fatio (born 1810 in Rouen − d. 1871 in Paris) was a French naval painter, peintre officiel de la Marine, curator of the naval and ethnographic museum of the Louvre, and mayor of the 20th arrondissement of Paris. Morel-Fatio was born to the Morel family, of small nobility. He attended Lycée Louis-le-Grand before being expelled in ...