Jean Michel Moreau le Jeune
French Artist · 1741–1814
9 works across 2 collections on LinkedCulture
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
Works
View as IIIF ↗Birth of the Dauphin: The Crowd Watching the Fireworks on the Place de la Grève, Paris, January 21, 1782
The Metropolitan Museum of Art · 1782, reprinted ca. 1860
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Design for the Engraving "Réjouissances du Peuple . . . à Reims le 27 aout 1765"
The Metropolitan Museum of Art · 1767
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Dido Excoriates Aeneas, from Book IV of the "Aeneid"
Getty Museum · 1803
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Elevation for a Wall Tomb
The Metropolitan Museum of Art
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"Have No Fear, My Good Friend"
Getty Museum · 1775
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Outing in a Wood
The Metropolitan Museum of Art · n.d.
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The Nail Makers (Le Cloutier Grossier)
Getty Museum · about 1763
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The Wager Won
The Metropolitan Museum of Art · 1778
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Volume I of Oeuvres de Molière, avec des remarques grammaticales, des Avertissimens et des Observations sur chaque Pièce par M. Bret. A Paris, Par la Compagnie des libraires associés. M.D.CC.LXXIII.
The Metropolitan Museum of Art · published in 1788
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