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Orpheus
1628
National Gallery, London
Painting ID:: 3705
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Orpheus
Salon of 1863. 6' 4 3/4" x 4' 3 1/4" (195 x 130 cm).
Painting ID:: 10914
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Orpheus
1865.
Salon of 1866.
5' 3/4" x 3' 3 1/4" ( 154 x 99.5 cm )
Painting ID:: 10945
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Orpheus
1865
oil on panel
Mus??e d'Orsay, Paris.
Painting ID:: 19533
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Orpheus
1896
Oil on canvas 127.5 x 184cm
(50 1/4 x 72 1/2in)
Lady Lever Art Gallery Port Sunlight Liverpool (mk63)
Painting ID:: 27979
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Orpheus
mk68
Oil on canvas
Paris,Orsay Museum
1865
France
Painting ID:: 30811
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Orpheus
mk98
1913
Graphite,Coloured pencil and Pastel on paper
67.3x91.5
Painting ID:: 34923
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Orpheus
mk170
1628
OIl on oak
53x81.5cm
Painting ID:: 43131
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orpheus
mk247
1865,oil on vanvas,60.625x37.375 in,154x95 cm,musee d orsay,paris,france
Painting ID:: 56259
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Orpheus
Orpheus (1865).
Painting ID:: 59955
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Gustave Moreau
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.
Orpheus
Orpheus (1865).
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