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 S
