George Moreau de Tours - Artist Info

About George Moreau de Tours

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Georges Moreau Tours
  • Biography

    Georges Moreau de Tours, son of the famous alienist Jacques-Joseph Moreau, was a talented painter who embraced his artistic career in the 1870s. He exhibited for the first time at the Salon of 1864 at the age of 16 and was trained by Alexandre Cabanel in the art of academicism. Moreau de Tours showed a modern touch in his compositions, sometimes bordering on impressionism, and displayed audacity in his choice of subjects, blending historical painting with contemporary themes.

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