Jean-Michel Moreau [SEP] occupation
Jean-Michel Moreau
Jean-Michel Moreau (26 March 1741 – 30 November 1814), also called Moreau le Jeune ("the younger"), was a French draughtsman, illustrator and engraver.
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 1758 when Le Lorrain went to be the first director of the Saint Petersburg Academy of Fine Arts established the previous year, where
) Jean-Michel Moreau le Jeune
- (Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco) Several drawings
- Bernadine Heller-Greenman, "Moreau le Jeune and the "Monument du Costume"", "Athanor" 20 (On-line text, pdf format)
- Biographie de Jean-Michel Moreau (the death date 1819 is a misprint.)