page_title: Antoine Léon Morel-Fatio
hierarchical_section_title: Antoine Léon Morel-Fatio
caption_attribution_description: Attaque d'Alger par mer, 3 juillet 1830, toile de Léon Morel-Fatio (Versailles, châteaux de Versailles et de Trianon). Scène de l'attaque de l'amiral Dupperé (navire La Provence) lors du bombardement d'Alger, le 3 juillet 1830.
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: Attack on Algiers by Sea, July 3, 1830, oil on canvas
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