Georges Moreau de Tours (4 April 1848,

Ivry-sur-Seine Ivry-sur-Seine () is a commune in the Val-de-Marne department in the southeastern suburbs of Paris, France. It is located from the centre of Paris. Paris's main Asian district, the Quartier Asiatique in the 13th arrondissement, borders the co ...

- 12 January 1901, Bois-le-Roi) was a French history painter and illustrator.

Biography

His father was the psychiatrist

Jacques-Joseph Moreau Jacques-Joseph Moreau (3 June 1804 – 26 June 1884), nicknamed "Moreau de Tours", was a French psychiatrist and member of the Club des Hashischins. Moreau was the first physician to do systematic work on drugs' effects on the central nervo ...

, who first suggested hemp as a treatment of mental illness. His brother, Paul Moreau de Tours, also became a psychiatrist and criminologist. In 1865 he entered the

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, where he studied with

Alexandre Cabanel Alexandre Cabanel (; 28 September 1823 – 23 January 1889) was a French painter. He painted historical, classical and religious subjects in the academic style. He was also well known as a portrait painter. According to ''Diccionario Enciclopedi ...

.Short biography and photograph
from ''Nos peintres et sculpteurs, graveurs, dessinateurs...'', Sociétés de Beaux-Arts, (1897) @ Open Library He was a regular exhibitor at the

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from that time until 1896. In addition to his canvas paintings, he produced three scenes for the wedding chamber at the Town Hall in the Second Arrondissement. The works he illustrated include ''

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'' and ''

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''; dramas by

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. He was awarded the

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in 1892. A street in Bois-le-Roi is named after him. His wife Thérèse (a former student of his) was also a painter of some note.

Selected works

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Wattignies Wattignies (; nl, Wattenijs) is a commune in the Nord department of northern France. It lies in the south-western part of the Lille conurbation. It covers an area of , and as of 2019 its population was 15,075. Neighboring communes Lille, Fac ...

(1893) File:Clovis-Moreau.jpg, The Sons of Clovis (1877) File:Pichegru par Moreau de Tours.jpg, The Death of

Pichegru Jean-Charles Pichegru (, 16 February 1761 – 5 April 1804) was a French general of the Revolutionary Wars. Under his command, French troops overran Belgium and the Netherlands before fighting on the Rhine front. His royalist positions led to h ...

(1891)

References

External links

Bois-le-Roi website
Moreau de Tours family
ArtNet: More works by Moreau de Tours
{{DEFAULTSORT:Moreau de Tours 1848 births 1901 deaths French history painters 19th-century French painters French male painters 19th-century French male artists