Jean Nicolas Moreau

Name/Title

Jean Nicolas Moreau

Entry/Object ID

87-32-642

Type of Print

Engraving

Made/Created

Artist Information

Cochin (the younger), Charles-Nicolas
Dupin, J.P. fils

Date made

circa 1764 - circa 1787

Time Period

18th Century

Dimensions

Height

7 in

Width

4-1/2 in

Interpretative Labels

Label

(from 2016.Klassics for Kids) Charles-Nicolas Cochin the Younger French, 1715-1790 engraved by Jean Pierre Dupin the Son, French Jean Nicholas Moreau, 1764-1787 engraving From 1764-1787 Jean Nicholas Moreau was first surgeon at the Hotel-Dieu, the oldest hospital in Paris. By the 16th century, European upper-class men had begun to wear powdered wigs, and this fashion persisted into the 18th century. Today wigs are still worn in Great Britain and other Commonwealth nations by lawyers, judges and other civic officials. Read This is My Hair. Draw yourself with a funny hairdo. Why would Leonard Baskin draw himself with his hair in his eyes?