Gustave Moreau. The Fables of La Fontaine

February 12, 2021 October 18, 2021 Exhibition has ended

This exhibition is an event and the culmination of a dream that until now seemed unattainable. It offers the public the privilege of discovering sixty-four watercolour masterpieces illustrating La Fontaine's Fables by Gustave Moreau (1826-1898) at the request of Antony Roux (1833-1913), one of his main collectors. Never exhibited since 1906 and originally reserved solely for the enjoyment of the commissioner wishing to make a single book, these masterpieces exceptionally return to the place where ...
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Engraving The apparition: Salome and the head of Saint John the Baptist - Gustave Moreau

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French painter, Gustave Moreau can be considered as the painter symbolist par excellence.
Son of an architect from the City of Paris, he very early revealed gifts for drawing and painting. Encouraged by his parents, he entered the Ecole des Beaux-Arts in 1846 in François Picot's studio. He admired Delacroix, whose style marked his first paintings like the Pietà, exhibited at the 1852 salon. He became friends with Chassériau, worked according to his advice and continued to do so until his death in 1856; with Puvis de Chavannes, he was his spiritual heir. Like Delacroix, he has a love of the female body, a taste for rich ornaments and accessories.

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