Artist: Jean-michel Moreau (1741 - 1814)
Nationality: French
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Media: Painting,Printmaking,Drawing
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Biography:
Jean-Michel Moreau le Jeune was a wigmaker’s son who studied with a painter and engraver. He traveled to St. Petersburg with his master in 1758, returning to Paris a year later. He dropped painting and began drawing for engravings and illustrating for Diderot’s Encyclopedie. He collaborated with Francois Boucher and illustrated the writings of Voltaire and Jean-Jacques Rousseau. Moreau became Designer to the King in 1770 and Designer and Engraver to the King in 1781. Moreau also illustrated for a costume book, Monuments de costume physique et morale, that was first published in 1777. He joined the Academie Royale in 1789 and worked through the French Revolution, appointed to royal office by Louis XVIII in 1814.

Artworks in Museum Collections: (40)
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Jean Michel Moreau the Younger, La Foire de Gonesse, 1772
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Jean Michel Moreau the Younger, Le Festin Royal, 1782
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Jean Michel Moreau the Younger, Le Festin Royal, 1782
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Jean Michel Moreau the Younger, La foire de Gonesse, 1772
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Jean Michel Moreau the Younger, Serment de Louis XVI a son Sacre, 1779
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Jean Michel Moreau the Younger, Les adieux, 18th - 19th century
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Jean Michel Moreau the Younger, Venus Anadyomene, 18th - 19th century
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Jean Michel Moreau the Younger, Pygmalion (Paris: J. Lemonnyer, 1883), 1883
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Jean Michel Moreau the Younger, La Modele Honnete, 18th - 19th century
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Jean Michel Moreau the Younger, Arrivee de la Reine a l"Hotel de Ville, 1782
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Jean Michel Moreau the Younger, Le pardon obtenu, 18th - 19th century
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Jean Michel Moreau the Younger, Portrait of the Artist"s Daughter, circa 1765 - 1770
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Jean Michel Moreau the Younger, Les petits parains (The little godfathers), 18th - 19th century
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Jean Michel Moreau the Younger, Memnon Ou L"Ecoeuil Du Sage, 18th - 19th century
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Jean-Michel Moreau, Le Triomphe de L"Amour sur les quatre elements, 17th - 18th century
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Dido Excoriates Aeneas
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Jean Michel Moreau the Younger, Cassandre - Illlustration to work of Voltaire (Olimpie, Act III, Sc.5), 18th - 19th century
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Jean Michel Moreau the Younger, O Dieux! - Illlustration to work of Voltaire (Oedipe, Act IV, Sc.3), 18th - 19th century
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Jean Michel Moreau the Younger, AglaÈ - Illlustration to work of Voltaire (Socrate, Act II, Sc.1), 18th - 19th century
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Jean Michel Moreau the Younger, Regarde la, te dis-je - Illlustration to work of Voltaire (Zaire, Act V, Last scene), 18th - 19th century
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Jean Michel Moreau the Younger, O mon Dieu tutÈlaire! - Illlustration to work of Voltaire (Tanerede, Act IV, Sc.4), 18th - 19th century
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Jean Michel Moreau the Younger, J"embrasse mes enfans - Illlustration to work of Voltaire (Mahomet, Act IV, Sc.5), 18th - 19th century
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Jean Michel Moreau the Younger, Le Duc de Foix - Illlustration to work of Voltaire (La Princesse de Navarre, Act I, Sc.5), 18th - 19th century
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Jean Michel Moreau the Younger, Je tombe ý vos genoux - Illlustration to work of Voltaire (Les Scythes, Act IV, Sc.7), 18th - 19th century
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Jean Michel Moreau the Younger, Mon pËre - Illlustration to work of Voltaire (L"Enfant Prodigue, Act V, Sc.6), 18th - 19th century
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Jean Michel Moreau the Younger, Glycere - Illlustration to work of Voltaire (Les deux Tonneaux, Act III, Sc.1), 18th - 19th century
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Jean Michel Moreau the Younger, Le voile est dÈchirÈ - Illlustration to work of Voltaire (Le Duc de Foix, Act V, Sc.2), 18th - 19th century
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Jean Michel Moreau the Younger, Adelaide! - Illlustration to work of Voltaire (Adelaide de Gueselin, Act II, Sc.3), 18th - 19th century
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Jean Michel Moreau the Younger, HÈlas! Voilý ce que l"amour me coute! - Illlustration to work of Voltaire (La Prude, Act III, Sc.3), 1801
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Jean Michel Moreau the Younger, Un vieux fou - Illlustration to work of Voltaire (La Femme qui a raison, Act II, Sc.5), 18th - 19th century
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Jean Michel Moreau the Younger, Si, Si, brindisi ý te - Illlustration to work of Voltaire (Le Baron d"Otrante, Act III, Sc.3), 18th - 19th century
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Jean Michel Moreau the Younger, Quoi! Toujours Charlot! - Illlustration to work of Voltaire (Charlot, Act II, Sc.3), 18th - 19th century
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Jean Michel Moreau the Younger, Le Nouveau Testament en latin et en franÁais, tr. by Sacy (Paris: Saugrain, 1793), vol. 4, le Saint Evangile de JÈsus Christ selon Saint Jean , 1793
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Jean Michel Moreau the Younger, Vengeance, attends ma voix! - Illlustration to work of Voltaire (Les GuËbres, Act III, Sc.2), 18th - 19th century
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Jean Michel Moreau the Younger, Que tout m"Ètonne - Illlustration to work of Voltaire (Le Droit du Seigneur, Act III, Sc.6), 18th - 19th century
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Jean Michel Moreau the Younger, Quel Bonheur effroyable! - Illlustration to work of Voltaire (Irene, Act III, Sc.6), 18th - 19th century
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Jean Michel Moreau the Younger, Proof before the title of: Cassandre - Illlustration to work of Voltaire (Olimpie, Act III, Sc.5), 18th - 19th century
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Jean Michel Moreau the Younger, Je laisse entre vos mains - Illlustration to work of Voltaire (Eryphile, Act IV, Sc.5), 18th - 19th century
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Jean Michel Moreau the Younger, Arrette, audacieux coupable; - Illlustration to work of Voltaire (Sophonisbe, Act II, Sc.5), 18th - 19th century
The Minneapolis Institute of Arts -
Artist: Jean Michel "Le Jeune" Moreau Title: Le Rendezvous pour Marly Date: 1776 - 1783

Artnews Articles and Exhibition Information: (8)
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Metropolitan Museum of Art: Gustave Moreau - Between Epic and Dream
Best known for his mysterious and complex allegorical paintings based on classical, literary, and biblical sources, Moreau was much admired in his own day. His fantastic, ...
Metropolitan Museum of Art: Last Week! Gustave Moreau - Between Epic and Dream
Best known for his mysterious and complex allegorical paintings based on classical, literary, and biblical sources, Moreau was much admired in his own day. His fantastic, ...
National Gallery: A Private Passion: 19th-Century Paintings and Drawings from the Grenville L. Winthrop Collection, Harvard University
The exhibition is organised by the Fogg Art Museum, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts, in collaboration with the National Gallery, London, Musée des Beaux-Arts, Lyon and Réunion des Musées Nationaux, and The Metropolitan Museum of Art, ...
Columbia Museum of Art: From Fauvism to Impressionism: Albert Marquet at the Pompidou
Schooled under Gustav Moreau at the Ecole des Arts Decoratifs alongside his friend Henri Matisse, Marquet was considered at the forefront of artistic achievement in France in his day. Bonds of friendship associated him with Matisse as well as Raou...
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art: Degas to Picasso: Painters, Sculptors and the Camera
Dating from roughly 1885 to 1915, the 364 paintings, drawings, sculptures and photographs on view demonstrate the pervasive and diverse role of photography in the work and working processes of these significant artists. The works...
Kimbell Art Museum: From Renoir to Picasso: Masterpieces from the Musée de l'Orangerie
Everywhere from Tokyo to Moscow to Washington, D.C., individual collectors set in motion plans for independent institutions, committed to modern and non-Western ...
Modern Museum: David Bailey: Birth of the Cool
Bailey remembers that when he was growing up in the East End of London, he saw three alternatives for his future: to be a boxer, a trumpet player or a car thief. So he bought himself a trumpet and tried to play in the spirit of Chet Baker, bu...
Jewish Museum: Tenth Annual New York Jewish Film Festival
Several directors will be in New York during the festival to introduce their fi1ms, including Pierre Grimblat (Lisa), Paula Levine (Convergence), Peter Forglics (The Maelstrom - A Family Chronicle), Gilles Bourdos (Disparus), and Rod Freedman (Unc...

Further Artwork and Information:

Jean-michel Moreau (1741 - 1814) Biography, Artwork Images, Exhibitions, Reviews
Jean-Michel Moreau Online
Jean-Michel Moreau le Jeune (Getty Museum)
DBLP: Jean-Michel Moreau
Moreau, Jean-Michel
Jean-Michel MOREAU (1741-1814)
Jean Michel Moreau The Younger (1917 - ) Biography, Artwork Images, Exhibitions, Reviews
Grove Art Online
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Jean-Michel MOREAU - La Pucelle dOrléans

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