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Auction: 12/18/2002
Lot: 63
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Louis Gabriel Moreau AUCTION RECORDS
1740 Paris - 1806. Known for: Painting, draftsman, etching, landscape painting.
Louis Gabriel Moreau was born in 1740 in Paris. He became a gifted draughtsman, etcher and painter of landscapes and had a prodigious career. After studying with Pierre-Antoine de Machy, who... Read full biography
Louis Gabriel Moreau was born in 1740 in Paris. He became a gifted draughtsman, etcher and painter of landscapes and had a prodigious career. After studying with Pierre-Antoine de Machy, who specialized in painting Grand Tour themes, landscapes redolent with Classical ruins and tromp-l'oeil... Read full biography
Louis Gabriel Moreau was born in 1740 in Paris. He became a gifted draughtsman, etcher and painter of landscapes and had a prodigious career. After studying with Pierre-Antoine de Machy, who specialized in painting Grand Tour themes, landscapes redolent with Classical ruins and tromp-l'oeil architectural scenes, Moreau went on to become a member of the Academie de St. Luc, artist to Comte d'Artois (later King Charles X), and curator of the National Museum in Paris. Moreau, a master of... Read full biography
Louis Gabriel Moreau was born in 1740 in Paris. He became a gifted draughtsman, etcher and painter of landscapes and had a prodigious career. After studying with Pierre-Antoine de Machy, who specialized in painting Grand Tour themes, landscapes redolent with Classical ruins and tromp-l'oeil architectural scenes, Moreau went on to become a member of the Academie de St. Luc, artist to Comte d'Artois (later King Charles X), and curator of the National Museum in Paris. Moreau, a master of watercolors and gouaches, combined the picturesque architectures of his master de Machy with naturalistically, almost plein-air-rendered, topographical landscapes in the Ile-de-France region just outside of Paris. Moreau's fascination with the effects of... Read full biography
Louis Gabriel Moreau was born in 1740 in Paris. He became a gifted draughtsman, etcher and painter of landscapes and had a prodigious career. After studying with Pierre-Antoine de Machy, who specialized in painting Grand Tour themes, landscapes redolent with Classical ruins and tromp-l'oeil architectural scenes, Moreau went on to become a member of the Academie de St. Luc, artist to Comte d'Artois (later King Charles X), and curator of the National Museum in Paris. Moreau, a master of watercolors and gouaches, combined the picturesque architectures of his master de Machy with naturalistically, almost plein-air-rendered, topographical landscapes in the Ile-de-France region just outside of Paris. Moreau's fascination with the effects of light at different times of the day precipitated his use of a lighter palette, characterized by warm yellows and verdant foliage punctuated by... Read full biography
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Art images copyright© of artist or assigneeLE JARDIN DE BAGATELLE : LE PONT CHINOIS et LA CASCADE, 1783
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