Biography on jean michel moreau french painter

Jean-Michel Moreau (26 March – 30 November ), also called Moreau le Jeune ("the younger"), was a French draughtsman, illustrator and engraver.

Biography

Moreau le Jeune, as he is usually called, was born in Paris.

He was the pupil of the painter Louis-Joseph Le Lorrain who accompanied his master to St Petersburg in when Le Lorrain went to be the first director of the Saint Petersburg Academy of Fine Arts established the previous year, where Moreau briefly taught drawing before returning to Paris in , after Le Lorrain's unexpected death.

He worked for the engraver Jacques-Philippe Lebas, producing reproductive drawings of contemporary paintings and those of Old Masters for engravers to work from and learning etching During the s he also provided drawings to be engraved for the Re