Louis-Gabriel Moreau, called Moreau l'Âiné (Paris c. 1740-1805)

Moreau trained with the painter Pierre Antoine de Machy and exhibited for the first time in 1760 at the Exposition de la Jeunesse. He was painter to the Comte d'Artois (later Charles X) and had lodgings in the Louvre. From 1791 he was able to exhibit at the open Salon at the Louvre, continuing to do so until 1804. In the years 1793-5 he also worked as a restorer and curator at the newly established Musée National, Paris.