Adrien was a 19th century male French artist born in1843 in Troyes and in1906 in Paris. He was the son of Adolphe Augustin Moreau, a stove maker, and Adrienne Leautey. Adrien was a genre and history painter of oil, watercolour and pastel. He was also an engraver, draughtsman and illustrator. A pupil of Isidore Pils, he went on to exhibit at the Paris Salon from 1868 and later with the Société des Artistes Français. He was awarded a second-class medal in 1876, silver medals at the Paris Exposition Universelle in 1889 and 1900, and was made a Knight of the Légion d'Honneur
You can find his paintings in the Musée des Beaux-Arts in Troyes, the Musée d'Arts in Nantes and the Musée des Beaux-Arts in Carcassonne. However, most of his paintings were bought by French museums and foreign collectors in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.
He was a member of the Société d'aquarellistes français.