Isaac de Moucheron

Isaac de Moucheron (1667–1744) was an 18th-century painter and interior decorator (wall painter) from the Dutch Republic.

Biography He was born in Amsterdam, Dutch Republic. According to the RKD he was one of ten children of the landscape painter Frederik de Moucheron and Maria Magdalena de Jouderville, the daughter of the Rembrandt pupil Isaac de Jouderville, for whom he was named. His father taught him to paint and then he travelled to Italy for two years. When Isaac later declared that it was a copy by his own hand, he claimed the postmaster had never explicitly asked who had painted it, but had wished to see his things that he had brought back with him. Houbraken intended to write a biographical sketch of Isaac in his birth year of 1667, and mentioned this in his biographical sketch of his father Frederik de Moucheron, but was unable to complete it (he died before publication of Volume III, which ended with birth year 1659).

Collections Moucheron's work is held in the permanent collections of several institutions, including the Kemper Art Museum, the British Museum, the Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, the Philadelphia Museum of Art, the Cooper Hewitt, the Ackland Art Museum, the University of Michigan Museum of Art, the Harvard Art Museums, the Johnson Museum of Art, the Staedel Museum, and the Museum of the Shenandoah Valley.