Georges Moreau de Tours [SEP] place of death
Georges Moreau de Tours
Georges Moreau de Tours (4 April 1848, Ivry-sur-Seine - 12 January 1901, Bois-le-Roi) was a French history painter and illustrator.
Biography.
His father was the psychiatrist Jacques-Joseph Moreau, who first suggested hemp as a treatment of mental illness. His brother also became a psychiatrist and criminologist.
In 1865 he entered the École des Beaux-Arts, where he studied with Alexandre Cabanel. He was a regular exhibitor at the Salon from
1880: "Voyage en Islande : rédigé d’après les notes d’un officier supérieur de la marine de l’État", Tours, A. Mame et fils, 143 p., in-8°.
Sources.
- Edmond-Denis De Manne, "Nouveau dictionnaire des ouvrages anonymes et pseudonymes", 3e éd., Lyon, N. Scheuring, 1868, 607 p., (p. 11).
- Georges Moreau, "Revue universelle : recueil documentaire universel et illustré", Vol.9, Paris, Larousse, 1894, (