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Adolphe Étienne Auguste Moreau-Nélaton (2 December 1859 – 25 April 1927) was a French painter, art collector and art historian. His large collection is today held in its entirety by French national museums.


Family

Moreau-Nélaton was born and died in Paris. His family's art collecting began with his grandfather Adolphe Moreau (1800–1859). As a stockbroker he possessed ample capital with which to buy the work of artists with whom he was personally acquainted, including
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. Moreau-Nélaton's father, who was also named Adolphe Moreau (1827–1882), was a high government official and led the railroad company
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. In 1856 he married the ceramic artist Camille Nélaton (1840–1897), with whom he further expanded the family's collection.


As artist

After an 1882 visit to the
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, Moreau-Nélaton decided to become a painter. He began his artistic education by studying with the artists Henri-Joseph Harpignies and Albert Maignan, who were friends of the family. In 1885 he exhibited for the first time in the
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. His painting style was influenced by
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and Berthe Morisot. Domestic family scenes were his primary subject matter, but he also painted several landscapes. Some of his works are now in the collection of the Musée d'Orsay. File:Etienne Moreau-Nélaton - Enfants au piano.jpg, ''Children at the Piano'' File:Etienne Moreau-Nélaton - La place de Fere-en-Tardenois.jpg, ''La place de
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Collector and patron

Despite his artistic output, Moreau-Nélaton was perhaps more important as a collector and patron. He first expanded his family's collection to include paintings by Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot,
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followed, including '' Hommage à Delacroix''. Moreau-Nélaton also belonged to the group of subscribers who secured and purchased Manet's '' Olympia'' for the nation of France in 1890. His collection of impressionist painting was especially impressive, with 10 works by
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alone, including the well-known ''Poppyfield at Argenteuil''. It also included 7 works by
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, 2 works by Camille Pissarro, and 5 works by Édouard Manet, including '' The Luncheon on the Grass''. Other painters represented in the collection included
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and Eugène Carrière. Most of the paintings were donated to the
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in 1906, and today are displayed either there or in the Musée d'Orsay. Further sections of it were willed to state museums after his death. Among these were sculptures by Alfred Charles Lenoir,
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and Aimé Jules Dalou. In addition to all of this he also willed over 3,000 drawings and prints by various artists to the Louvre.


Paintings in the Moreau-Nélaton collection

File:Eugène Ferdinand Victor Delacroix 054.jpg, Eugène Delacroix:
''Still Life with Lobster and Trophies from Hunting and Fishing'' File:Camille_Corot_-_The_Bridge_at_Mantes.jpg, Camille Corot:
''The Bridge at Mantes'' File:Fantin-Latour Homage to Delacroix.jpg, Henri Fantin-Latour:
'' Hommage à Delacroix'' File:Edouard Manet - Luncheon on the Grass - Google Art Project.jpg, Édouard Manet:
'' The Luncheon on the Grass'' File:Claude Monet 037.jpg, Claude Monet:
''Poppyfield at Argenteuil'' File:Berthe Morisot Caça de borboleta.jpg, Berthe Morisot:
''Butterfly Hunt'' File:Alfred Sisley 005.jpg, Alfred Sisley:
''Boats at Bougival'' File:Camille Pissarro 035.jpg, Camille Pissarro:
''Post Coach from Louveciennes''


References and sources

;References ;Sources * Vincent Pomarède: ''Etienne Moreau-Nélaton: un collectionneur peintre ou un peintre collectionneur.'' Association Moreau-Nélaton, Paris 1988, * Réunion des Musées Nationaux (Hrsg.): ''De Corot aux Impressionistes, donations Moreau-Nélaton.'' Exhibit Catalog, Paris 1991, *''Moreau-Nélaton, Etienne'' in
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(Online),
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2007–2009.


External links

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