Gustave Moreau

Biography

Elected with the Academy of the Art schools in 1888, it is named professor in 1892, and counts among its pupils Adolphe Beaufrère, Henri Matisse, Albert Marquet and Georges Rouault. It goes on many journeys in Italy, to Rome, Florence, Milan, Pisa, His, Naples, Venice, spends the months to copy works of the Titien, Léonard de Vinci and the frescos of Michel-Angel of the Sixtine Vault. It borrows much from the Masters of the Renaissance and also integrates exotic reasons and orientaux.
Large draftsman, Moreau had at the end of his life of many drawings, photographs, books illustrated which were used as a basis for its inspiration picturale.

Posterity

He bequeaths to the town of Paris his workshop, located in a private mansion of 14 rue de La Rochefoucauld (IXe), as well as the whole of works being there (a considerable share of its work belongs to private collections). This legacy of almost 850 paintings or paperboards, 350 watercolours, and more than 13000 drawings and copies will give rise to the museum Gustave Moreau which was officially opened with the public the January 13rd 1903.
En 1912, André Breton visit the museum and comes out from it deeply upset by works of the peintre.

Quotations

“To be modern does not consist in seeking something apart from all that was made. It acts contrary to coordinating all that the preceding ages brought to us, to show how our century accepted this heritage and how it uses about it. ”
“One day will come where one will include/understand the eloquence of this dumb art. the evocation of the thought by the line, the Arabesque and the average plastics, here is my goal”.
“When these people can think and dream one will give him the art which makes think and dream. What good is this fight niaise of the poet against this inertia and this savage love of coarse reality which form the bottom of the nature of these people of accountants? ”

Works

Self-portrait , 1850, (Museum Gustave Moreau)
Canticle of the canticles or Sulamite , 1852, (Museum Gustave Moreau)
Darius after the battle of Arbelles , 1853, (Museum Gustave Moreau)
Athenians delivered to Minotaure in the Labyrinth , 1854, (Museum of Borough-in-Bresse)
the Kings Mages , 1860, drawing, ink (Museum Gustave Moreau)
Hésiode and the Muses , 1860, increased in 1882, (Museum Gustave Moreau)
Applicants , 1852-1860, increased in 1882, (Museum Gustave Moreau)
Oedipus and the Sphinx , 1864, (New York, Metropolitan Museum off Art)
Jason & Médée, 1865, (Museum of Orsay)

Perished the , 1865-66, watercolour, (Museum of Orsay)

Orphée , 1866, (Museum of Orsay)

Diomède devoured by its horses , 1865, (Rouen, Museum of the Art schools)

Jupiter and Europe , 1868, (Museum Gustave Moreau)

Prométhée , 1868, (Museum Gustave Moreau)

Decapitation of Saint Jean-Baptiste , 1872-1873, (Museum Gustave Moreau)

Messaline , 1874, watercolour, (Museum Gustave Moreau)

the Appearance , 1876, watercolour, (Louvre)

Salome dancing in front of Hérode , 1876, (Los Angeles, The Armand Hammer Museum off Art & Collection)

Jacob and the Angel , 1878, (Harvard University Art Natural history musea)

Hercules and Hydre de Lerne , (1876), (Chicago, Art Institute)

Hercules and Hydre de Lerne , (draft oils) (1869-76), (Museum Gustave Moreau)

Moïse exposed on the Nile , 1878, (Harvard University Art Natural history musea)

Galatée , 1880-1881, (Museum of Orsay)

Salome with the Garden , 1878-1885, watercolour, (the Cairo, Musée Mahmoud-Khalil)

Life of the Humanité , (9 panels), 1866, (Museum Gustave Moreau)

Saint Georges and the Dragon , 1889, (Londre, The National Gallery)

Orphée on the tomb of Eurydice , 1890, (Museum Gustave Moreau)

the Poet Traveller , 1890, (Museum Gustave Moreau)

Dead Poet carried by a centaur , watercolour, 1890, (Museum Gustave Moreau)

Jupiter and Sole , 1895, (draft + oil), (Museum Gustave Moreau)

the young man and Death, (Museum of Orsay)

Salome Tattooed , 1878-1885, watercolour, (Gustave Museum Moreau)

Gallery

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