Gustave Moreau

Gustave Moreau studied at Beaux-Arts de Paris. He trained under François-Édouard Picot. His recorded influences include Théodore Chassériau and Eugène Delacroix.

As a teacher, Gustave Moreau is recorded in connection with Nelson Dias, Silas Broux, Léon Lehmann, Johannes Holbek, Paul Renaudot and Fernand Sabatté. Each of those relationships is stated by the authority record rather than inferred from style.

Gustave Moreau worked in painting. His work is associated with Symbolism.

He was employed by École des Beaux-Arts. He belonged to Académie des beaux-arts. He worked at Paris, Italy, Rome and Florence.

Works recorded as notable number 7: Apollo and The Nine Muses, Oedipus and the Sphinx, Orphés, Salome, Hercules and the Lernaean Hydra, The Apparition and Jupiter and Semele. His recorded genres are history, religious and mythological.

Gustave Moreau received Officer of the Legion of Honour and Knight of the Legion of Honour. Work by Gustave Moreau is held by Städel Museum, Art Institute of Chicago, Thyssen-Bornemisza Museum and J. Paul Getty Museum.

86 works under this name are catalogued by Wikidata Query Service, Open Library, The Metropolitan Museum of Art and The Art Institute of Chicago. Their recorded dates run from 1850 to 2017.

Judith, dated 1850, held by Musée Gustave Moreau, inventory Cat. 776. Chimera, dated 1850, held by Musée Gustave Moreau, inventory Cat. 56. Debauchery, dated 1850, held by Musée Gustave Moreau, inventory Cat. 95. The Plague in Florence, dated 1870, held by Musée Gustave Moreau, inventory Inv. 13987. The Shulamite, dated 1853, held by Musée Gustave Moreau, inventory Cat. 210. Love Victorious over Death, dated 1850, held by Musée Gustave Moreau, inventory Cat. 230. The Good Samaritan, dated 1850, held by Musée Gustave Moreau, inventory Cat. 45. Christ at the Column, dated 1850, held by Musée Gustave Moreau, inventory Cat. 57. Christ Reliever, dated 1850, held by Musée Gustave Moreau, inventory Cat. 232. The Decameron, dated 1850, held by Musée Gustave Moreau, inventory Inv. 15718. The Bad Rich, dated 1850, held by Musée Gustave Moreau, inventory Cat. 125. The Poet and the Siren, dated 1894, held by Musée Gustave Moreau, inventory Cat. 66. King Canute and His Courtesans, dated 1850, held by Musée Gustave Moreau, inventory Cat. 64. King David, dated 1878, held by Musée Gustave Moreau, inventory Cat. 199. Leda, dated 1850, held by Musée Gustave Moreau, inventory Cat. 93. The Prodigal Son, dated 1850, held by Musée Gustave Moreau, inventory Cat. 113. The Chimeras, dated 1850, held by Musée Gustave Moreau, inventory Cat. 188. The Disciples in Emmaus, dated 1850, held by Musée Gustave Moreau, inventory Cat. 769. The Parcae, dated 1850, held by Musée Gustave Moreau, inventory Inv. 14862. The Sirens, dated 1850, held by Musée Gustave Moreau, inventory Inv. 13957. The Springs, dated 1856, held by Musée Gustave Moreau, inventory Cat. 40. Magnolia, dated 1864, held by Musée Gustave Moreau, inventory Inv. 13627. Messalina, dated 1850, held by Musée Gustave Moreau, inventory Cat. 98. Moses Exposed, dated 1875, held by Musée Gustave Moreau, inventory Cat. 161. Moses Exposed on the Nile, dated 1875, held by Musée Gustave Moreau, inventory Cat. 774. Moses Rescued from the Nile, dated 1893, held by Musée Gustave Moreau, inventory Cat. 36. Death of Moses, dated 1850, held by Musée Gustave Moreau, inventory Cat. 563. Death of a Young Crusader, dated 1870, held by Musée Gustave Moreau, inventory Cat. 784. Orestes, dated 1850, held by Musée Gustave Moreau, inventory Cat. 589. Orpheus, dated 1850, held by Musée Gustave Moreau, inventory Cat. 740. Dead Orpheus, dated 1850, held by Musée Gustave Moreau, inventory Cat. 726. Pasiphaë, dated 1880, held by Musée Gustave Moreau, inventory Cat. 75. Pasiphaë, Grisaille, dated 1850, held by Musée Gustave Moreau, inventory Cat. 594. Landscape, dated 1850, held by Musée Gustave Moreau, inventory Cat. 120. Landscape, Draft, dated 1850, held by Musée Gustave Moreau, inventory Cat. 856. Petrarch After the Triumph, dated 1850, held by Musée Gustave Moreau, inventory Cat. 97. Prometheus, Variant, dated 1870, held by Musée Gustave Moreau, inventory Cat. 49. Tea Rose, dated 1850, held by Musée Gustave Moreau, inventory Cat. 756. Binding of Isaac, dated 1850, held by Musée Gustave Moreau, inventory Cat. 680. Saint Francis Kissing a Leper, dated 1850, held by Musée Gustave Moreau, inventory Cat. 228. L'assembleur de rêves. La géométrie dans les spasmes. Gustave Moreau- Sueños De Oriente. Autour d'Orphée par Gustave Moreau. Huysmans-Moreau. Gyusutāvu Morō Ten. Gyusutāvu Morō. Gustave Moreau-Georges Rouault. Cinq mille dessins de Gustave Moreau. Gustave Moreau et le symbolisme. Mítoszok földje. Gustave Moreau, huit reproductions facsimile en couleurs. Correspondance d'Italie. Gustave Moreau, dated 1964. Il simbolismo. Gustave Moreau, symboliste. Catalogue des peintures, dessins, cartons, aquarelles exposés dans des galeries du Musée Gustave Moreau, Paris, dated 1974. Catalogue des œuvres de Gustave Moreau, avec une préface sur la vie de l'artiste, dated 1966. Ecrits sur l'art (2 volumes), dated 2002. Gustave Moreau e l'Italia, dated 1996. Gustave Moreau et Eugène Fromentin, dated 1972. Gustave Moreau et la Bible, dated 1991. Gustave Moreau, le rêve symbolique, dated 1998. Gustave Moreau y su legado, dated 1994. Land of myths, dated 2009. Le Musee Gustave Moreau. L' Inde de Gustave Moreau, dated 1997. L' oeuvre, dated 1911. Paysages de rêve de Gustave Moreau, dated 2004. Peintures, dessins, cartons, aquarelles exposés dans les galeries du Musée Gustave Moreau, dated 1974. Quand Moreau signait Chassériau, dated 2005. Gustave Moreau, 1826-1898, dated 1998. Souvenirs de la Petite et de la Grande Roquette, dated 2003. L' assembleur de rêves, dated 1984. Gustave Moreau - Tout L'Oeuvre Peint de (Les Classiques de L'Art,). Oedipus and the Sphinx, dated 1864, oil on canvas, held by The Metropolitan Museum of Art, inventory 21.134.1. Salome with the Head of John the Baptist, dated ca. 1876, oil on wood, held by The Metropolitan Museum of Art, inventory 2018.289.6. Salomé Dancing Before the Head of St. John the Baptist, dated mid to late 19th century, graphite, watercolor and gouache on cream wove paper, held by The Metropolitan Museum of Art, inventory 1975.1.673. Hercules and the Lernaean Hydra, dated 1875–76, oil on canvas, held by The Art Institute of Chicago, inventory 1964.231. Hercules and the Hydra of Lerna, dated c. 1876, pen and brown and black ink and graphite, with touches of brush and brown wash, heightened with lead white, discolored, on cream laid paper prepared with a pale brown wash, tipped on blue laid paper, laid down on cream board, held by The Art Institute of Chicago, inventory 1983.281. Inspiration, dated c. 1893, watercolor and gouache, with pen and blue ink, over traces of graphite, on ivory wove paper, wrapped and adhered on verso to wood pulp board, held by The Art Institute of Chicago, inventory 1985.596. La Peri (Mythological Subject), dated 1865, graphite, with brush and black ink, gray wash, and touches of gold metallic paint, heightened with traces of white gouache, on cream wove tracing paper, laid down on ivory wove paper, held by The Art Institute of Chicago, inventory 1973.722. Portrait of Eugène Lacheurié, dated 1852, graphite on ivory wove paper, held by The Art Institute of Chicago, inventory 1982.1. Revue générale des splénomégalies primitives dites idiopathiques : thèse présentée et publiquement soutenue à la Faculté de médecine de Montpellier le 6 janvier 1905 / par François Moreau., dated 1904 [i.e. 1905?], held by Wellcome Collection. M0008780: Portrait of Pierre Bretonneau (1778-1862), dated 17 February 1943, held by Wellcome Collection. Androgyne : fashion + gender / Patrick Mauriès ; text translated from the French by Barbara Mellor., dated 2017, held by Wellcome Collection.

Work associated with this heading is recorded in 12 named public collections.

Musée Gustave Moreau: 101 recorded objects, read from the institution's own published catalogue. Musée d'Orsay: 10 recorded objects, read from the institution's own published catalogue. Musée Sainte-Croix: 4 recorded objects, read from the institution's own published catalogue. Metropolitan Museum of Art: 1 recorded object, read from the institution's own published catalogue. http://www.wikidata.org/.well-known/genid/2335a02ca92532149d1a93625bbdc174: 1 recorded object, read from the institution's own published catalogue. Musée des Beaux-Arts de Rouen: 1 recorded object, read from the institution's own published catalogue. Art Institute of Chicago: 1 recorded object, read from the institution's own published catalogue. http://www.wikidata.org/.well-known/genid/4ea1057f4b6c16cf82a9fa824e0bc6c2: 1 recorded object, read from the institution's own published catalogue. The Metropolitan Museum of Art: 17 recorded objects, read from the institution's own published catalogue. The Art Institute of Chicago: 5 recorded objects, read from the institution's own published catalogue. The Cleveland Museum of Art: 2 recorded objects, read from the institution's own published catalogue. Wellcome Collection: 3 recorded objects, read from the institution's own published catalogue.

12 scholarly publications naming this subject were located in the registry of record.

Moreau, Gustave, Benezit Dictionary of Artists, 2011. Moreau, Gustave, Oxford Art Online, 2003. Moreau, Gustave, Religion Past and Present. Gustave Moreau, Four French Symbolists, 1996. Associative analysis of the painting by G. Moro “Salome, dancing before Herod” in the novel by J.-K. Huysmans “Against Nature”, Научный диалог, 2024. MODERNIDADE E DESMATERIALIZAÇÃO NA OBRA TARDIA DE GUSTAVE MOREAU, ARS, 2021. Narcisove metamorfoze v slikarstvu simbolizma in nadrealizma: Gustave Moreau in Salvador Dalí, Keria: Studia Latina et Graeca, 2012. Fonti visive di Gustave Moreau fra ricezione critica e rielaborazione poetica. Alcune note su Vittore Carpaccio e la pittura veneta, Annali Online dell'Università di Ferrara. Sezione Lettere, 2013. L’epifania della gran meretrice: La Pisanelle e la lubrica arte di Moreau, Archivio d’Annunzio, 2020. Interculturality on canvas - collages of religions and cultures in the oeuvre of Gustave Moreau, Glasnik Etnografskog Instituta SANU, 2024. Polysemic Hercules: Gustave Moreau & Ovid’s Metamorphoses, Il Capitale Culturale: Studies on the Value of Cultural Heritage, 2024. THE HERMENEUTIC STUDY OF THE MUSICAL AND POETIC TEXTS IN THE VOCAL MUSIC BY E. CHAUSSON, Studia Universitatis Babeş-Bolyai. Musica, 2025.

This heading is established in Gemeinsame Normdatei (GND) (1039518-0) and Getty Union List of Artist Names (ULAN) (500310011). Those registers additionally record the forms Musée National Gustave Moreau, Maison-Musée de Gustave Moreau, Musée Gustave Moreau and Musée National Gustave Moreau (Paris).

8 digitised items associated with this heading are catalogued by Internet Archive.

Catalogue sommaire des peintures (1904) — Internet Archive. Untitled (The Dream of the Mogul?) (1886) — Internet Archive. Orphée ( Aguafuerte) (1865) — Internet Archive. The Monkey and the Cat, from the Fables of La Fontaine (1886) — Internet Archive. The Head and the Tail of the Serpent, from the Fables of La Fontaine (1886) — Internet Archive. Discord, from the Fables of La Fontaine (1886) — Internet Archive. Oedipus and the Sphinx (1864) — Internet Archive. Peintures, cartons, aquarelles, etc., exposés dans les galeries du Musée Gustave Moreau (1990) — Internet Archive.

Bibliographic registers publish measured figures for this heading: 49 language editions of the general reference literature carrying an article (Wikimedia (language editions)). A count of publications is evidence of attention, not of standing, and is given here only as a measure.

This article draws on 10 independent source lineages. Copies and mirrors of the same underlying record were collapsed into a single witness, so 10 means 10 genuinely separate publishers of record. 8 further registers were consulted and returned nothing for this heading.

Gustave Moreau studied at Beaux-Arts de Paris. training under François-Édouard Picot is recorded. Nelson Dias, Silas Broux and Léon Lehmann are recorded as having studied under Gustave Moreau. the recorded working language is French.

The field of work recorded is painting. Subjects and genres recorded for the work are history, religious and mythological. The authority associates the name with Symbolism. Théodore Chassériau and Eugène Delacroix are recorded as an influence.

Places of work recorded in the authority are Paris, Italy and Rome. Employment is recorded with École des Beaux-Arts. Membership is recorded of Académie des beaux-arts.

Works named in the authority record are Apollo and The Nine Muses, Oedipus and the Sphinx, Orphés, Salome, Hercules and the Lernaean Hydra and The Apparition.

Work by Gustave Moreau is recorded in the collections of Städel Museum, Art Institute of Chicago, Thyssen-Bornemisza Museum, J. Paul Getty Museum and National Gallery of Canada.

Distinctions recorded are Officer of the Legion of Honour and Knight of the Legion of Honour.