Étienne Moreau-Nélaton
Adolphe Étienne Auguste Moreau-Nélaton (born December 2, 1859 in Paris ; † April 25, 1927 there ) was a French painter, art collector and art historian. He donated his extensive art collections to French state museums, some of them during his lifetime.
family
The grandfather of Étienne Moreau-Nélaton, Adolphe Moreau (1800–1859), began to build up the family's art collection. As a stockbroker, he had sufficient financial means to acquire works by his friends, Eugène Delacroix and Alexandre-Gabriel Decamps . Étienne Moreau-Nélatons father, who was also called Adolphe Moreau (1827-1882), was a high government official and ran the railway company Chemin de Fer de l'Est . In 1856 he married the ceramic artist Camille Nélaton (1840–1897), with whom he further expanded the art collection.
Moreau-Nélaton as an artist
After attending the École normal supérieure , Étienne Moreau-Nélaton decided to become a painter in 1882. He began his artistic training with family friends Henri-Joseph Harpignies and Albert Maignan . In 1885 he exhibited for the first time in the Paris Salon . His painting style was influenced by Édouard Manet and Berthe Morisot , where he mainly depicted domestic family scenes, but also created some landscapes. Some of his works are now in the Musée d'Orsay in Paris .
Painting by Moreau-Nélaton
La place de Fère-en-Tardenois
Scène d'intérieur
L'enfant au livre
Art collector and patron
Moreau-Nélaton achieved particular importance as an art collector and patron. In addition to the works already in family ownership, he initially acquired paintings by Delacroix, Jean-Baptiste Camille Corot , Narcisso Virgilio Díaz de la Peña , Constant Troyon , Théodore Géricault , Thomas Couture , Honoré Daumier and Charles-François Daubigny . Works by Henri Fantin-Latour followed , including the painting Hommage à Delacroix . Moreau-Nélaton was also one of the group of donors who secured the Manet Olympics for the state. His own collection of works by Impressionist artists included ten works by Claude Monet alone . These included the famous painting Poppy Field near Argenteuil . For his collection he also acquired seven works by Alfred Sisley , two pictures by Camille Pissarro and the butterfly hunt from Berthe Morisot . The five paintings by Édouard Manet in the Moreau-Nélaton collection also included his main work, Breakfast in the Green . Other painters in the collection were Pierre Puvis de Chavannes , Pierre Paul Prud'hon , Johan Barthold Jongkind , Jean-Louis Forain and Eugène Carrière . Most of the paintings were donated to the Louvre in 1906 and are now exhibited there or in the Musée d'Orsay. Other parts of his collection ended up in the state museums after his death. This also included sculptures by Alfred Charles Lenoir , Aristide Maillol and Aimé Jules Dalou . In addition, he bequeathed more than 3,000 drawings and numerous prints by various artists to the Louvre.
Painting by the Moreau-Nélaton Foundation
Eugène Delacroix:
Still Life with Lobsters and Trophies of Hunting and Fishing
Camille Corot:
Le pont de Mantes
Henri Fantin-Latour:
Homage to Delacroix
Édouard Manet:
Breakfast in the countryside
Claude Monet:
Poppy field near Argenteuil
Berthe Morisot:
Butterfly Hunt
Alfred Sisley:
Boats at Bougival
Camille Pissarro:
Louveciennes stagecoach
Moreau-Nélaton as an art historian
At the beginning of the 20th century, Moreau-Nélaton devoted himself increasingly to research on art history. From 1905 he published numerous articles, biographies and catalogs of works. In addition to his treatises on artists of the 19th century, including Delacroix, Corot, Manet, Jean-François Millet and Johan Barthold Jongkind , he also worked on books on the Renaissance artists Jean and François Clouet and the Reims Cathedral . In his writings, Moreau-Nélaton did not pursue any theory, but limited himself to the evaluation of original sources, which means that his publications are still standard works in art history today. His extensive collections of material are now in the Bibliothèque nationale de France . In 1925, Étienne Moreau-Nélaton was elected to succeed Théophile Homolle in the Académie des Beaux-Arts .
Publications
- Histoire de Corot et de ses œuvres. (together with Alfred Robaut). Floury, Paris 1905
- Le Clouet Peintres officiels des Rois de France. É. Levy, Paris 1908
- Les frères Du Monstier, Peintres de la reine Catherine de Médicis. É. Levy, Paris 1908
- Chantilly. Lévy, Paris 1910
- Histoire de Fère-en-Tardenois. Champion, Paris 1911
- Les Églises de chez nous. Laurens, Paris 1913
- La Cathédrale de Reims. Librairie Centrale d. Beaux-Arts, Paris 1915
- Delacroix. Laurens, Paris 1916
- Jongkind. Laurens, Paris 1918
- Millet. Laurens, Paris 1921
- Les Clouet et leurs émules. Laurens, Paris 1924
- Daubigny. Laurens, Paris 1925
- Manet. Laurens, Paris 1926
- Bonvin. Laurens, Paris 1927
literature
- Vincent Pomarède: Etienne Moreau-Nélaton: un collectionneur peintre ou un peintre collectionneur. Association Moreau-Nélaton, Paris 1988, ISBN 2-9502932-0-4
- Réunion des Musées Nationaux (ed.): De Corot aux Impressionistes, donations Moreau-Nélaton. Exhibition catalog Paris 1991, ISBN 2-7118-2431-4
- Moreau-Nélaton, Etienne in Grove Dictionary of Art (online), Oxford University Press 2007–2009.
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| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Moreau-Nélaton, Étienne |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Moreau-Nélaton, Adolphe Étienne Auguste (full name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | French painter, art collector and art historian |
| DATE OF BIRTH | December 2, 1859 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Paris , France |
| DATE OF DEATH | April 25, 1927 |
| Place of death | Paris , France |