Orientalist painter. He travelled to Egypt, Syria, Lebanon, and Palestine in 1831–33. In Cairo, he saw and later described the production of stucco and glass windows. Étienne Thevenot reports his description in his Essai historique sur le vitrail 1837.

Menu, D. (1972). Prosper Marilhat (1811–1847). Essai de catalogue. Thèse de doctorat, Lettres, Université de Dijon.