page_title: Antoine Léon Morel-Fatio
hierarchical_section_title: Antoine Léon Morel-Fatio
caption_attribution_description: English: Portrait of the painter Antoine Léon Morel-Fatio (1810-1871), cropped
context_page_description: Antoine Léon Morel, later Morel-Fatio 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.
context_section_description: 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.
caption: Posthumous portrait by Emmanuel Barcet [fr], after François-Gabriel Lépaulle (1915)
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