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The Moreau House
Baroness Anne-Marguérite-Joséphine-Henriette Rouillé de Marigny Hyde de Neuville (French, active in United States, 1771–1849)
American
1809
Medium/Technique
Brush and brown wash over graphite on paper
Dimensions
Sheet: 18.6 x 32.8 cm (7 5/16 x 12 15/16 in.)
Credit Line
Gift of Maxim Karolik for the M. and M. Karolik Collection of American Watercolors and Drawings, 1800–1875
Accession Number58.920
NOT ON VIEW
CollectionsEurope, Prints and Drawings
ClassificationsDrawings
Catalogue Raisonné
Karolik (1962) cat. 794 (Visting Foreign artists)
DescriptionFrame house, front lawn and statue encircled by chain fence with potted plants standing between posts. Estate of General and Mme. Moreau, Bonaparte exiles, adjacent to the artist's farm in New Brunswick, N.J., purchased in 1811.
InscriptionsInscribed in pen and ink lower left: Morice Ville; lower right: 2 Juillet 1809
Provenance1958, gift of Maxim Karolik (b. 1893 - d. 1963), Newport, R.I., to the MFA. (Accession Date: September 18, 1958)