Antoine Léon Morel-Fatio, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death
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French painter
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Place of Birth: Rouen, Normandy, France
About Antoine Léon Morel-Fatio
- Antoine Léon Morel, later Morel-Fatio (1810–1871) 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.
- He added Fatio in 1844 to distinguish himself from a businessman of the same name.
- It was apparently in reference to a Swiss branch of the family.
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