Artist: Gustave Moreau (1826 - 1898)
Nationality: French
Movement: Symbolism
Media: Painting
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Biography:
Gustave Moreau was a withdrawn watercolorist who lived alone in Montmartre for the majority of his life and career. He preferred to paint mythological subjects, symbolist work that is thought to be a forerunner of surrealism. Although his art was never exhibited after 1886, word of his talent was spread. In 1892, he was given a painting professor position at the Ecole des Beaux Arts, where he taught future talents such as Matisse and Rouault.

Artworks in Museum Collections: (40)
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Oedipus and the Sphinx, 1864 Gustave Moreau (French, 1826-1898)Oil on canvas; 81 1/4 x 41
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Dejanira (Autumn)
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Diomedes Devoured by Horses
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Gustave Moreau - Salome Dancing Before Herod 1876 Oil on canvas UCLA Hammer Museum French
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Gustave Moreau - Hercules and the Lernaean Hydra c. 1876 oil on canvas The Art Institute of Chicago French
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Gustave Moreau - Diomedes Devoured by His Horses 1865-70 oil on canvas The Detroit Institute of Art French
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Edguard Moreau, Fan, 1870 - 1890
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Anonymous, Le Sommeil by M. Moreau, circa 1870
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Jean Michel Moreau the Younger, La Foire de Gonesse, 1772
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Louis Gabriel Moreau the Elder, Landscape Caprice, 1761
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Jean Michel Moreau the Younger, Le Festin Royal, 1782
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Jean Michel Moreau the Younger, Le Festin Royal, 1782
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Pierre Louis Moreau, Le Bachot, 19th - 20th century
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Jean Michel Moreau the Younger, La foire de Gonesse, 1772
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Luc-Albert Moreau, Portrait of a Woman, 19th - 20th century
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Jean Michel Moreau the Younger, Serment de Louis XVI a son Sacre, 1779
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Jean DaullÈ, Portrait of Pierre Louis Moreau de Maupertuis, 1741
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Jean Michel Moreau the Younger, Les adieux, 18th - 19th century
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Pierre Louis Moreau, Bateaux a Anvers, 19th - 20th century
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Pierre Louis Moreau, Sisteron: vue generale, 19th - 20th century
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Pierre Louis Moreau, La Vallon de champagny, 19th - 20th century
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Pierre Louis Moreau, Viviers sur Rhone, 19th - 20th century
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Jean Michel Moreau the Younger, Venus Anadyomene, 18th - 19th century
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Jean Michel Moreau the Younger, Pygmalion (Paris: J. Lemonnyer, 1883), 1883
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Pierre Louis Moreau, Environs d"Uzes, 19th - 20th century
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Jean Michel Moreau the Younger, La Modele Honnete, 18th - 19th century
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Jean Michel Moreau the Younger, Arrivee de la Reine a l"Hotel de Ville, 1782
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Louis Gabriel Moreau the Elder, Classical Landscape with Figures, circa 1780 - 1790
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Louis Gabriel Moreau the Elder, Classical Landscape with Figures, circa 1780 - 1790
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Dido Excoriates Aeneas
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Jean Michel Moreau the Younger, Le pardon obtenu, 18th - 19th century
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Jean Michel Moreau the Younger, Portrait of the Artist"s Daughter, circa 1765 - 1770
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Jean (Boullanger) Boulanger, Stephanus Moreau, Episcopal Church, after C. Bernard., 17th century
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Jean Michel Moreau the Younger, Les petits parains (The little godfathers), 18th - 19th century
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Jean Michel Moreau the Younger, Memnon Ou L"Ecoeuil Du Sage, 18th - 19th century
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Jean-Michel Moreau, Le Triomphe de L"Amour sur les quatre elements, 17th - 18th century
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Phillippe Triere, Episode from Count Hamilton"s "Fairy Tales" (after J.M. Moreau le Jeune), 18th - 19th century
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"Have No Fear, My Good Friend"
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Jean Michel Moreau the Younger, Cassandre - Illlustration to work of Voltaire (Olimpie, Act III, Sc.5), 18th - 19th century
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Jean Michel Moreau the Younger, O Dieux! - Illlustration to work of Voltaire (Oedipe, Act IV, Sc.3), 18th - 19th century

Artnews Articles and Exhibition Information: (8)
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Metropolitan Museum of Art: Gustave Moreau - Between Epic and Dream
Best known for his mysterious and complex allegorical paintings based on classical, literary, and biblical sources, Moreau was much admired in his own day. His fantastic, ...
Metropolitan Museum of Art: Last Week! Gustave Moreau - Between Epic and Dream
Best known for his mysterious and complex allegorical paintings based on classical, literary, and biblical sources, Moreau was much admired in his own day. His fantastic, ...
National Gallery: A Private Passion: 19th-Century Paintings and Drawings from the Grenville L. Winthrop Collection, Harvard University
The exhibition is organised by the Fogg Art Museum, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts, in collaboration with the National Gallery, London, Musée des Beaux-Arts, Lyon and Réunion des Musées Nationaux, and The Metropolitan Museum of Art, ...
Columbia Museum of Art: From Fauvism to Impressionism: Albert Marquet at the Pompidou
Schooled under Gustav Moreau at the Ecole des Arts Decoratifs alongside his friend Henri Matisse, Marquet was considered at the forefront of artistic achievement in France in his day. Bonds of friendship associated him with Matisse as well as Raou...
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art: Degas to Picasso: Painters, Sculptors and the Camera
Dating from roughly 1885 to 1915, the 364 paintings, drawings, sculptures and photographs on view demonstrate the pervasive and diverse role of photography in the work and working processes of these significant artists. The works...
Kimbell Art Museum: From Renoir to Picasso: Masterpieces from the Musée de l'Orangerie
Everywhere from Tokyo to Moscow to Washington, D.C., individual collectors set in motion plans for independent institutions, committed to modern and non-Western ...
Modern Museum: David Bailey: Birth of the Cool
Bailey remembers that when he was growing up in the East End of London, he saw three alternatives for his future: to be a boxer, a trumpet player or a car thief. So he bought himself a trumpet and tried to play in the spirit of Chet Baker, bu...
Jewish Museum: Tenth Annual New York Jewish Film Festival
Several directors will be in New York during the festival to introduce their fi1ms, including Pierre Grimblat (Lisa), Paula Levine (Convergence), Peter Forglics (The Maelstrom - A Family Chronicle), Gilles Bourdos (Disparus), and Rod Freedman (Unc...

Further Artwork and Information:

Gustave Moreau Online
WebMuseum: Moreau, Gustave
Gustave Moreau Museum - Paris, France
Gustave Moreau
ARC :: Gustave Moreau (1826-1898) :: Page 1 of 5
Gustave Moreau
Musée national Gustave-Moreau
moreau.art-culture.net
Gustave Moreau (1826 - 1898) Biography, Artwork Images, Exhibitions, Reviews
Paris Pages; Musee national Gustave Moreau - Information

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