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(1) Louis-Gabriel Moreau [l’aîné]
(b Paris, before 24 April 1740; d Paris, 12 Oct 1805). Painter, draughtsman and etcher. He trained with the painter Pierre Antoine de Machy and exhibited for the first time in 1760 at the Exposition de la Jeunesse, showing views of ruins painted in gouache and watercolour over pencil, and employing a clear, bright palette. In 1764 he was received as a member of the Académie de St Luc, where he continued to exhibit landscapes with ruins and figures in various media until the Revolution (1789–95). In 1779 he exhibited in Montpellier, and it is possible that he travelled in the south of France, although most of his landscapes show subjects in Paris and its environs. In 1787 and 1788 he failed in attempts to become a member of the Académie Royale de Peinture et de Sculpture, but he was painter to the Comte d’Artois (later Charles X) and had lodgings in the Louvre. From 1791 he was able to exhibit at the open Salon at the Louvre, continuing to do so until 1804. In the years 1793–5 he also worked as a restorer and curator at the newly established Muséum National, Paris.
Part of the Moreau family
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