Etienne Moreau-Nélaton
Landscape painter, author and ceramist, Adolphe-Etienne Moreau-Nélaton was born in Paris to painter / ceramist Camille Moreau-Nélaton (1840-97) and painter / graphic artist Adolphe Moreau (1827-82). Etienne studied under the painter Henri-Joseph Harpignies from 1871 and learned ceramic techniques from his mother. He often worked at a studio on his estate, La Tournelle, in Aisne, where he also learned from traditional potters. Although he created earthenware painted in richly colored slip with plant motifs, flowers, and fruiting branches, he is best known for his delicately decorated stoneware, which appeared soon after 1900. Bust of Moreau-Nélaton by Paul Paulin, 1914.
