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What (who) is Gustave Moreau - definition

19TH CENTURY FRENCH SYMBOLIST PAINTER (1826-1898)
  • ''Fauve Nude'' by [[Albert Marquet]] (1898), oil, 73 × 50 cm; Musée des Arts de Bordeaux
  • ''Alexandrine Dureux.'' by [[Jules-Élie Delaunay]] (c. 1865), graphite, 16.1 x 12.5 cm., Gustave Moreau Museum
  • ''The Chimera'' (1867), oil on panel, 33 x 27.3 cm., [[Fogg Museum]]
  • ''Degas at the [[Uffizi]]'' (1859), pencil, 15.3 x 9.4 cm., Musée Moreau
  • Ganymede]]'' (1886), oil on canvas, 58.5 x 45.5 cm, private collection
  • ''Louis Moreau'' (ca. 1850), oil on canvas, 45 x 31 cm., Musée Gustave Moreau
  • ''Pauline Moreau'' (no date), oil on canvas, Musée Gustave Moreau
  • Carpaccio]] (1858), 140 x 358 cm., [[Musée Gustave Moreau]]
  • The upper level of the Musée national Gustave-Moreau, once Moreau's home and studio. It was converted into a museum shortly before the artist's death.
  • ''[[L'Apparition]]'' (1876), watercolor, 105 x 72 cm., [[Musée d'Orsay]]
  • ''The Frogs Asking for a King'', from [[La Fontaine's Fables]] (1880s), watercolor, private collection
  • ''The Suitors'' [unfinished] (1852-1896), 385 x 343 cm., Musée Gustave Moreau

Reginald Ernest Moreau         
ENGLISH ORNITHOLOGIST AND CIVIL SERVANT
R. E. Moreau; Reg Moreau
Reginald Ernest Moreau, (29 May 1897 – 30 May 1970), was an English civil servant who worked as an accountant in Africa and later contributed to ornithology. He made studies of clutch size in nesting birds, compared the life-histories of birds in different latitudes and was a pioneer in the introduction of quantitative approaches to the study of birds.
Sophia Moreau         
CANADIAN LEGAL SCHOLAR AND PHILOSOPHER
Sophia Reibetranz Moreau; Sofia Reibetranz Moreau; Sofia Moreau
Sophia Moreau (born 1972) is a Canadian philosopher and Professor of Law and Philosophy at the University of Toronto.
Hégésippe Moreau         
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FRENCH WRITER (1810-1838)
Hegesippe Moreau
Hégésippe Moreau (born Pierre-Jacques Roulliot; April 8, 1810December 20, 1838) was a French lyric poet. From birth, he was called by the last name of his biological father (Moreau) and took on the pseudonym Hégésippe when he first began publishing poetry in 1829.

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Gustave Moreau

Gustave Moreau (French: [mɔʁo]; 6 April 1826 – 18 April 1898) was a French artist and an important figure in the Symbolist movement. Jean Cassou called him "the Symbolist painter par excellence".: 110 p.  He was an influential forerunner of symbolism in the visual arts in the 1860s, and at the height of the symbolist movement in the 1890s, he was among the most significant painters. Art historian Robert Delevoy wrote that Moreau "brought symbolist polyvalence to its highest point in Jupiter and Semele.": 147 p.  He was a prolific artist who produced over 15,000 paintings, watercolors, and drawings. Moreau painted allegories and traditional biblical and mythological subjects favored by the fine art academies. J. K. Huysmans wrote, "Gustave Moreau has given new freshness to dreary old subjects by a talent both subtle and ample: he has taken myths worn out by the repetitions of centuries and expressed them in a language that is persuasive and lofty, mysterious and new.": 78 p.  The female characters from the Bible and mythology that he so frequently depicted came to be regarded by many as the archetypical symbolist woman. His art (and symbolism in general) fell from favor and received little attention in the early 20th century but, beginning in the 1960s and 70s, he has come to be considered among the most paramount of symbolist painters.

Gustave Moreau was born in Paris and showed an aptitude for drawing at an early age. He received a sound education at Collège Rollin (now Collège-lycée Jacques-Decour) and traditional academic training in painting at the Ecole des Beaux-Arts. In the early 1850s he developed a close friendship/mentorship with Théodore Chassériau and had some modest success exhibiting as the Paris Salon. Chassériau's premature death in 1856 deeply affected Moreau, and he left Paris to travel in Italy from 1857 to 1859, returning with hundreds of copies and studies he made of old master paintings there. In 1864 his painting Oedipus and the Sphinx received a great deal attention at the Paris Salon, winning a medal and establishing his reputation. He had continued success through the 1860s, gradually gaining a select group of enthusiastic and loyal admirers and collectors. Although his painting Prometheus received a medal at the Salon of 1869, criticisms in the press were severe and he did not submit paintings to the Salon again until 1876, permanently withdrawing after 1880.

Moreau was decorated Officier de la Légion d'Honneur in 1883. Somewhat misanthropic, he grew increasingly reclusive in later years, although he maintained a close circle of friends. He was often reluctant to sell his work, seldom exhibited, and turned down a number of prestigious offers, including an invitation to exhibit at the Salon Les XX in Brussels (1887), rejected the post of a professor when he was elected to the Ecole des Beaux-Arts (1888), and rejected offers to decorate buildings at the Sorbonne (1891). It was only after the death of his friend Élie Delaunay in 1891 that he agreed to take over Delaunay's studio at the Ecole des Beaux-Arts. Moreau excelled as a teacher, counting Henri Matisse, Georges Rouault, and other notable artists amongst his pupils. His parents bought a townhouse in 1852 at 14 Rue de La Rochefoucauld, converting the top floor into a studio for Moreau, where he lived and worked, a bachelor, for the rest of his life, his father dying in 1862, and his mother, Adèle-Pauline in 1884. Moreau died of cancer in 1898, bequeathing the townhome and studio with nearly 1200 paintings and watercolors, and over 10,000 drawings to the State to be converted into a museum. The Musée Gustave Moreau opened to the public in 1903 and is still open today. It is by far the largest and most significant collection of his work.: 107–110 p. : 289–297 p. : 94 p.