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Gustave Moreau

50 works

Gustave Moreau (1826-1898) was a French Symbolist painter of richly detailed scenes from myth and the Bible, such as The Apparition. Read more

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Painting of Hercules with a bow facing a many-headed serpent at right, with fallen figures and a sunset over the sea.

Hercules and the Lernaean Hydra

1875-76

Painting of a nude man with a red staff embraced by a winged sphinx on a rocky cliff beneath a cloudy sky.

Oedipus and the Sphinx

1864

Painting of a woman in a golden gown holding a platter with a severed haloed head, a sword and candle nearby.

Salome with the Head of John the Baptist

ca. 1876

Painting of a centaur carrying a nude woman across a stream beneath rocky cliffs and autumn trees.

Dejanira (Autumn)

about 1872-1873

Painting of a haloed nude figure supported by two women beneath a large tree, with a river landscape and cloudy sky behind.

The Martyred Saint Sebastian

1869

Painting of a woman in green robes holding a severed head and lyre, with a rocky cliff and river landscape behind her.

Orpheus

1865

Painting of a nude man attacked by rearing horses before a ruined classical temple with Corinthian columns.

Diomède dévoré par ses chevaux

1865

Painting of an enthroned Jupiter with a nude Semele reclining before him, surrounded by winged figures and ornate columns.

Jupiter and Semele

1894

Painting of nude Jason and Medea beside an ornate column, with a white eagle at their feet and a forest behind.

Jason and Medea

1865

Painting of a nude woman with golden hair and a flower crown seated on coral rocks, with a shadowy face above.

Galatea

1880

Painting of a richly dressed woman holding a lyre on a shore, with a setting sun and stormy sky over the sea.

Arion

1891

Painting of a haloed saint on a rock beside a red cross, with two winged angels in red robes descending between dark cliffs.

Un Saint au désert

1879

Painting of a reclining nude woman with jeweled headdress beside white unicorns under a tree, with a lake behind.

The Unicorns

1888

Painting of a pale nude woman embracing a white bull's head beside a tree, with a winged cupid below and flowers around.

Pasiphaë

1880

Painting of a nude male figure rising with an eagle clutching him against a dark rocky background with blue sky.

Prometheus, Variant

1870

Painting of a dark-haired woman in an oval frame, arm outstretched, with a pale winged figure behind her and the word VICTIMA

Victim

1850

Painting of a crowned female figure before a pale classical building with an arched doorway, smoke rising, and loose brushwor

Helen at the Scaean Gate

1880

Painting of a haloed figure in red kneeling beneath a gnarled tree under a cloudy sky with a pale crescent moon.

Le Christ au jardin des Oliviers

1880

Painting of nude mythological figures gathered on a ship above the sea, with a white horse and a slanting red banner.

Return of the Argonauts

Painting of a hazy wooded landscape with a crowd of figures, white horses and a horseman in the foreground.

L'Enfant prodigue

1890

Painting of a bearded centaur carrying a nude woman with pink drapery across a dark leafy landscape under a pale sky.

The Rape of Europe

Brown ink and wash self-portrait of a bearded man with tousled hair gazing directly at the viewer.

Autoportrait

1872

Painting of the bound Prometheus on a rocky ledge, with an eagle at his side and a stormy mountain landscape behind him.

Prometheus

1868

Gustave Moreau's La vie de l'humanité: nine panels of mythological scenes with nudes and winged figures under a crucifixion l

La vie de l'humanité

1886

Watercolor of a one-eyed giant gazing at a reclining pale nymph on a shore, with shells, coral and a red sunset behind.

Galathea

1896

Watercolor of a winged woman in gold robes leaning toward a bare-chested man holding a laurel wreath before rocky cliffs.

The Voices

1880

Painting of the dead Christ reclining in a rocky cave, with a grieving haloed woman and a glowing angel above.

ピエタ

1876

Painting of a crowned woman in an ornate gown standing in a dim stone hall beside a glowing arched doorway.

牢獄のサロメ

1873

Painting of Saint George on a white horse spearing a dragon while a crowned princess watches from a rocky cliff.

Saint George and the Dragon

1889

Painting of nude Venus seated at the sea's edge with two sea figures holding coral and a shell, under a cliffed dusky sky.

Venus rising from the sea

1866

Gustave Moreau's painting of a winged centaur carrying a nude woman into a cloudy sky above a rocky cliff.

The Chimera

1867

Painting of a nude siren resting her hand on a crowned poet reclining in the sea beside a golden lyre, within a dark cave.

Le Poète et la Sirène

1893

Gustave Moreau (1826-1898) was a French Symbolist painter of richly detailed scenes from myth and the Bible, such as The Apparition. As a teacher at the École des Beaux-Arts he taught Henri Matisse and Georges Rouault. Browse 50 works by Gustave Moreau from 24 museums, free to download in HD.