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Gustave Moreau
Galatea
1880
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Gustave Moreau
Orpheus
1865.
Salon of 1866.
5' 3/4" x 3' 3 1/4" ( 154 x 99.5 cm )
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Gustave Moreau
Hesiod and the Muse
1891.
1' 11 1/4" x 1' 1 1/2" (59 x 34.5 cm).
Gift of Etienne Blanc, 1961.
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Gustave Moreau
Jason
salon of 1865.
6' 8 1/4" x 3' 9 1/2" ( 204 x 115.5 cm ).
Gift of Theodore Reinach, 1908.
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Gustave Moreau
Self-Portrait
1850
oil on canvas
Mus??e Gustave Moreau, Paris.
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Gustave Moreau
Pieta
1854
oil on canvas
Museum of Fine Arts, Gifu.
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Gustave Moreau
Jason
1863-65
oil on canvas
Mus??e d'Orsay, Paris
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Gustave Moreau
Oedipus and the Sphinx
1864
oil on canvas
Metropolitan Museum of Art, NY.
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Gustave Moreau
Orpheus
1865
oil on panel
Mus??e d'Orsay, Paris.
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Gustave Moreau
Diomedes Devoured by his Horses
1865
oil on canvas
Mus??e des beaux-arts, Rouen.
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Gustave Moreau
Hesiod and the Muses
oil on canvas
Mus??e Gustave Moreau, Paris.
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Gustave Moreau
Prometheus
1868
oil on canvas
Mus??e Gustave Moreau, Paris.
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Gustave Moreau
Saint Sebastian and the Holy Women
1868-69
oil on panel
Saint Louis Art Museum, MO.
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Gustave Moreau
Hercules and the Lernaean Hydra
1869-76
oil on canvas
The Art Institute of Chicago.
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Gustave Moreau
Saint George and the Dragon
1870-89
oil on canvas
The National Gallery, London.
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Gustave Moreau
Sappho
1871-72
watercolor on paper
Victoria and Albert Museum, London.
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Gustave Moreau
Salome Dancing before Herod
1874-76
oil on canvas
The Armad Hammer Collection, Los Angeles.
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Gustave Moreau
The Apparition
1874-76
watercolor on paper
Mus??e du Louvre, Paris.
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Gustave Moreau
The Apparition (Salome) (mk09)
c 1875
Oil on canvas,142 x 102 cm
Paris,Musee Gustave Moreau
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Gustave Moreau
The Apparition (mk19)
c 1874-1876
Oil on canvas,142 x 103 cm
Musee Gustave Moreau,Paris
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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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