Attributed to Louis-Gabriel Moreau, called Moreau l'aîné

Estimate

7,000 - 9,000 USD

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Description

Louis-Gabriel Moreau, called Moreau l'Aîné
a pair of landscapes, one with a small castle, the other with a rustic building
Both gouache;
both signed with initials: L M

Provenance

Sale, New York, Parke Bernet, 21 October 1970, lot 43

Catalogue Note

Moreau the elder was almost exclusively a landscape painter and was, above all else, a great master of gouache. His landscape scenes are notable for the fluidity which he is able to achieve in the medium, and the great sense of spontaneity he captures with his brush: a quality suggestive of the revolution the Impressionists were to bring to French painting in the following century.