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Antoine Léon Morel-Fatio

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In 1827, he enlisted as a pilot on a British merchant ship to learn navigation. Upon his return he began work at the family bank, but spent much of his time decorating the account books with ornamentation. His family then placed him with the banking firm of
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When he still very young his father, Étienne-Louis Morel, moved the family to Paris to open a bank. He was enrolled at the prestigious
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He briefly studied with several artists, and made trips to Italy, but his career began in earnest in 1830, when he accompanied an
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and threatened to destroy the wealthiest part of the city. In 1840, he painted a scene depicting the remains of
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in 1844 to distinguish himself from a businessman of the same name. Morel-Fatio subsequently moved to
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In 1845, he married Louise Françoise Aimée Ernestine du Chastel (1815-1876), the daughter of
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in 1833 with great success. He would be a regular exhibitor there from that time on.
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and was appointed as the curator of the naval and ethnographic sections of the
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and debarked in Istanbul, where he witnessed a fire that broke out in
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In 1849, he was appointed Deputy Curator at the Naval Museum in the
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Léon Morel-Fatio

Emmanuel Barcet
fr
Rouen
Normandy
Paris
Île-de-France
Marine art
Peintre de la Marine
Rouen
Normandy
added "Fatio" to his surname
Paris
marine art
Louvre
mayor
20th arrondissement of Paris
myocardial infarction
Franco-Prussian War
Prussian Army

Lycée Louis-le-Grand
Lycée Condorcet
Jean Charles Joachim Davillier
fr
Adolphe-Hippolyte Couveley
expedition to Algeria
Guy-Victor Duperré
Salon

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