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Gustave Moreau
The Sphinx (mk19)
1886
Water-colour 31.5 x 17.7 cm
Private collection
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Gustave Moreau
The Travelling Poet (mk19)
undated
Oil on canvas,180 x 146 cm
Musee Gustave Moreau,Paris
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Gustave Moreau
Galatea (mk20)
c 1896
Water-colour and gouache,45 x 34 cm
Thyssen-Bornemisza Collection,Lugano
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Gustave Moreau
Galatea (nn03)
1880
Oil on panel 85 x 67 cm 33 3/8 26 3/8 in Private collection
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Gustave Moreau
Ordipus and the Sphinx
mk72
1864
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Gustave Moreau
Recreation by our Gallery
mk79
1876
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Gustave Moreau
The Apparition
mk87
c.1875
Oil on canvas
142x102cm
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Gustave Moreau
The Apparition
mk98
1876
Watercolour on paper
105x72
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Gustave Moreau
Salome Dancing
mk155
c.1876
Oil on canvas
90x60cm
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Gustave Moreau
Cleopatra
mk155
c.1887
Watercolor with gouache highlights
40x25cm
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Gustave Moreau
Sphinx Headdress for a Masked Ball
mk155
1879
Watercolor
26x15cm
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Gustave Moreau
Apparition
mk156
1876-798
Oil on canvas
142x103cm
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Gustave Moreau
Galatea
mk156
1880
Oil on panel
85x67cm
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Gustave Moreau
Saint George and the Dragon
mk170
1889-189
Oil on canvas
141x96.5cm
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Gustave Moreau
The unicorn
mk178
around 1885 oils on linen 115x90cm
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Gustave Moreau
Klopatra on the Nile
mk221
1878-1885
OIl on canvas
28.2x36.4cm
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Gustave Moreau
Eason and Eros
mk221
1890-1891
OIl on canvas
134x90.8cm
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Gustave Moreau
Salome dancing
mk234
1876
143x103cm
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Gustave Moreau
orpheus
mk247
1865,oil on vanvas,60.625x37.375 in,154x95 cm,musee d orsay,paris,france
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Gustave Moreau
Jupiter and Semele
mk250 around the year 1875. Oil on canvas, 213.4 x 101.6 cm. Balimoluo Museum.
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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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