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About The Artist: Jean Michel Moreau

Jean-Michel Moreau, 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 Moreau briefly taught drawing...