MOREAU LOUIS-GABRIEL

(1740-1806)

Lake landscape

1784

Signed and dated on the right; LM 1784

Gouache on paper, 12 cm.

Original frame in gilded wood (accidents to the frame), 18.5 cm

Moreau was the student of Pierre-Antoine Demachy. He exhibited for the first time in 1760 and was admitted to the Académie de Saint-Luc in 1764.

Ordinary painter to the Comte d'Artois, he was essentially a draftsman and watercolorist but above all the master of gouache.

Moreau is considered one of the great French landscapers.



BIBLIOGRAPHY:

Schidlof, Bouchard, Darmon, Benezit, Wildenstein

MUSEE:

Louvre. Magnin Museum, Dijon, Rouen Museum of Fine Arts.