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Gustave Moreau Prometheus 1868(1868)
Medium Oil on canvas
Dimensions Deutsch: 205 x 122 cm
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Gustave Moreau Salome at the Prison 1873-76
Medium Oil on canvas
Dimensions 40 x 32 cm (15.7 x 12.6 in)
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Gustave Moreau La jeune cuisiniere 19th century
Medium Oil on canvas
Dimensions 20.5 x 17 cm (8.1 x 6.7 in)
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Gustave Moreau Sappho 1893 (?)
Medium Oil on canvas
Dimensions 85 x 67 cm (33.5 x 26.4 in)
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Gustave Moreau The Martyred St. Sebastian 1869(1869)
Medium English: Oil on panel
Dimensions 12 11/16 x 9 3/8 in. (32.2 x 23.8 cm)
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Gustave Moreau The Young Man and Death 1865(1865)
Dimensions 123.2 x 215.9 cm
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Gustave Moreau Tracianische Frau mit dem Kopf des Orpheus und seiner Leier 1865(1865)
Medium oil on canvas
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Gustave Moreau Hesiod and the Muses 1870(1870)
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Gustave Moreau Salome Carrying the Head of John the Baptist on a Platter 1876(1876)
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Gustave Moreau Jason and Medea Date 1865(1865)
Medium oil on canvas
Dimensions 204 X 121.5 cm (80.3 X 47.8 in)
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Gustave Moreau Galatee c. 1880(1880)
Medium oil on panel
Dimensions 85.5 X 66 cm (33.7 X 26 in)
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Gustave Moreau Song of songs 1853(1853)
Medium oil on canvas
Dimensions 300 x 319 cm (118.1 x 125.6 in)
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Gustave Moreau Pieta circa 1876(1876)
Medium oil on canvas
Dimensions 23 X 16 cm
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Gustave Moreau Hercules and the Hydra circa 1870(1870)
Medium oil on canvas
Dimensions 142 x 168 cm
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Gustave Moreau
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French
1826-1898
Moreau's main focus was the illustration of biblical and mythological figures. As a painter of literary ideas rather than visual images, he appealed to the imaginations of some Symbolist writers and artists, who saw him as a precursor to their movement.
His father, Louis Jean Marie Moreau, was an architect, who recognized his talent. His mother was Adele Pauline des Moutiers. Moreau studied under François-Édouard Picot and became a friend of Th??odore Chass??riau, whose work strongly influenced his own. Moreau carried on a deeply personal 25-year relationship, possibly romantic, with Adelaide-Alexandrine Dureux, a woman whom he drew several times.[1] His first painting was a Piet?? which is now located in the cathedral at Angoul??me. He showed A Scene from the Song of Songs and The Death of Darius in the Salon of 1853. In 1853 he contributed Athenians with the Minotaur and Moses Putting Off his Sandals within Sight of the Promised Land to the Great Exhibition.
Oedipus and the Sphinx, one of his first symbolist paintings, was exhibited at the Salon of 1864. Over his lifetime, he produced over 8,000 paintings, watercolors and drawings, many of which are on display in Paris' Mus??e national Gustave Moreau at 14, rue de la Rochefoucauld (IXe arrondissement). The museum is in his former workshop, and was opened to the public in 1903. Andr?? Breton famously used to "haunt" the museum and regarded Moreau as a precursor to Surrealism.
He had become a professor at Paris' École des Beaux-Arts in 1891 and counted among his many students the fauvist painters, Henri Matisse and Georges Rouault.
Moreau is buried in Paris' Cimeti??re de Montmartre.
In Alan Moore's graphic novel, The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen, it is implied that he was a nephew of Doctor Moreau, and he based a few of his paintings on the Doctor's creations.
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