(bapt Amsterdam, 23 Nov 1667; d Amsterdam, 1744). Painter, draughtsman, etcher and architect. Son of (1) Frederik de Moucheron. He was apprenticed to his father, before going to Italy, where he arrived c. 1695 and stayed for at least two years. He worked mainly in Rome in company with other northern artists, who gave him the Bent-name ‘Ordonantie’ (see SCHILDERSBENT). He specialized in vedute, such as View of the River Tiber (c. 1696; Warsaw, N. Mus.), which shows an atmospheric view of Rome from the south. In making Roman townscapes the main subject of his paintings he followed the singular example of Gaspar van Wittel. Isaac also copied paintings by Nicolas Poussin and, on his return to Amsterdam in 1697, made a series of etchings after Gaspard Dughet. His interest in these classicist French masters had a clearly recognizable effect on his own work.

Part of the Moucheron, de family

• Moucheron, Isaac de
  • Moucheron, de
  • collaboration
    • Verkolje: (2) Nicolaas Verkolje
    • Wit, Jacob de
  • groups and movements
    • Dutch Italianates
  • patrons and collectors
    • Lowther: (1) William Lowther
  • reproductive prints by others
    • Ghendt, Emmanuel Jean de
  • works
    • Heemstede
    • Netherlands,the, §III, 5: Painting and graphic arts, c 1680–c 1800