Jean Michel Moreau
French, 1741–1814
The Arrival of Jean-Jacques Rousseau to the Champs-Élysées
INV-1863
Jean Michel Moreau
French, 1741–18141780
The Arrival of Jean-Jacques Rousseau to the Champs-Élysées
Jean Michel Moreau French, 1741–1814 →prints and drawingbrush and wash
Date
1780
Medium
Pen and black ink, brush and brown wash and pale orange wash, on cream laid paper, prepared with a white gouache ground, laid down on off-white wove paper
Dimensions
Primary support: 23.2 × 33 cm (9 3/16 × 13 in.); Secondary support: 32.5 × 42.9 cm (12 13/16 × 16 15/16 in.)
Museum
Art Institute of Chicago
Location
Chicago, IL
Credit
Gift of Dorothy Braude Edinburg to the Harry B. and Bessie K. Braude Memorial Collection
Jean-Michel Moreau, the Younger, was Designer of Royal Entertainments (and soon to be Royal Designer and Engraver) when this drawing was among those shown at the Salon du Louvre of 1781, where it was extolled by the encyclopedist and critic Denis Diderot. As engraved by C. F. Macret in 1782, the subject of the scene was identified as a group of eminent philosophers and ancient authors—Montaigne, Voltaire, Homer, Plato, and Plutarch—welcoming into heaven Jean-Jacques Rousseau, author of The Social Contract.
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