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Gustave Moreau

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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 nude laurel-crowned Apollo seated before a group of muses with instruments, a dog and orange tree in the foregr

Apollo and The Nine Muses

1856

Sepia-toned painting of a nude woman surrounded by chimeras, winged creatures, and ruined towers among rocks and trees.

Les Chimères

1884

Painting of a nude mermaid holding a flower beside a sleeping poet in a dark, rocky grotto with an ornate border.

The Mermaid and the Poet

1895

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

The Unicorns

1888

Watercolor of a woman in an ornate patterned robe standing before a blue-tiled wall with a vase, by Gustave Moreau.

The Toilette

1887

Loose painting of a rider on a brown horse crossing open ground beneath a turbulent sky of white and grey clouds.

Horse Rider

1854

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 haloed woman holding a cross, seated on a large flower above kneeling figures and rocky landscape.

The Mystic Flower

Painting of a seated poet with a shepherd's staff beside a winged female figure on a rocky cliff above the sea.

Hesiod and the Muses

1870

Painting of nude poet Hesiod with draped Muses, a white winged horse, swans and cherub in a wooded landscape.

Hesiod and the Muses

1860

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

The Rape of Europe

Painting of a seated haloed Apollo above a procession of draped women, with a kneeling figure and crescent moon.

The Muses Leaving their Father Apollo to Go Out and Light the World

1868

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