MOREAU Louis-Gabriel (1740-1806), MINIATURE, THE COLOSSEUM

TECHNIQUE: Watercolor and gouache on velum

ARSTIST: Moreau Louis-Gabriel dit l'aîné

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FRAME : Gilded circle metal mount

PORTRAIT SIZE: 7.7cm

FRAME SIZE: 8cm

DESCRIPTION :

The Coliseum : very fine miniature by Louis-Gabriel Moreau, says the elder. Painter of the comte d' Artois (brother of King Louis XVI), he is considered, rightly, as one of the best landscape painters of his time.

Wildenstein dedicated a work to this artist whose original works are rather rare. Often imitated, Louis-Gabriel Moreau's miniatures are of such a quality of delicacy and precision, as they suffer no comparison.


CONDITION: Very good condition. Cleaned by Mr. Bernd Pappe.

BIBLIOGRAPHY: Schidlof, Blattel, Lemoine Bouchard, Louvre, Wildenstein