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CONDITION:
TIPPED IN SINGLE
PAGE PRINT - BLANK ON THE BACK. Print
sits on a decorated heavy board paper. There is also a tipped in print
on the back. Excellent
Condition. Image is clean, clear, sharp with beautiful detail. .As scanned.
Printed on heavier card paper. This beautiful print
would look great matted and framed. Or an art supply store can provide
you with a selection of frames for old art treasures.
ABOUT THE ARTIST: Jean-Michel Moreau le jeune - b. 1741
Paris, France, d. 1814 Paris, France, painter; draftsman; printmaker
French. A wigmaker's son, Jean-Michel Moreau le jeune was attuned to
fashion early on. Not surprisingly, then, his best-known works were
illustrations for a costume book published in 1777 and 1783. Monuments
de costume physique et morale remains the most complete record of the
taste and the manners of French nobility in Moreau's day. Moreau first
studied with a painter and engraver, following him to St. Petersburg
in 1758. When he returned to Paris in 1759, however, he virtually abandoned
painting. Joining an engraver's workshop, Moreau made drawings for engravings
after contemporary and Old Master artists. He also provided drawings
for Diderot's Encyclopédie and, as an engraver, collaborated
with François Boucher and illustrated the writings of Voltaire
and Jean-Jacques Rousseau. Publishers sought him out for his powers
of observation and ability to capture nuances of gesture, pose, and
light. Moreau was named Designer to the King in 1770 and Designer and
Engraver to the King in 1781. He traveled to Italy in 1785 and joined
the Académie Royale in 1789. Success continued during the French
Revolution, and in 1814 Louis XVIII re-appointed him to a royal office.
ABOUT THE PRINT: The review of the king to the plain of
Fine sands (1769). This drawing (feather and washing of Indian ink with
light appreciations of white) was bought by Goncourt on December 8,
1859, which reflects it with the wall of their dining room (43, street
Saint-George), then, when they moved in Auteuil, in the large living
room. Now in the Louvre.
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