Jean-Michel Moreau, called Moreau Le Jeune (Paris 1741-1814)

Design for an illustration for Jean-Jacques Barthélemy's Voyage du jeune Anacharsis en Grèce

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Jean-Michel Moreau, called Moreau Le Jeune (Paris 1741-1814)
Design for an illustration for Jean-Jacques Barthélemy's Voyage du jeune Anacharsis en Grèce
signed and dated 'J.M. Moreau Le J.ⁿ^e 4 an. R. [1797]'
black chalk, pen and black ink, brown wash
5 7/8 x 4¼ in. (14.9 x 10.8 cm.)

Provenance

Anonymous sale; Sotheby's, New York, 18 January 1984, part of lot 148.

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Lot Essay

An illustration for Jean-Jacques Barthélemy's (1716-1795) masterpiece, Voyage du jeune Anacharsis en Grèce dans le milieu du IVe siècle, a work first published in 1787. The author was afterwards elected as a member of the French Academy. Taking the form of a travel memoir by a young Scythian, a descendant of the eponymous philosopher, the work was intended to provide Barthélemy's contemporaries with an introduction to ancient Greek culture.

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