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GUSTAVE See also:MOREAU (1826-1898) , See also:French painter, was See also:born in See also:Paris on the 6th of See also:April 1826 . His See also:father was an architect, who, discerning the lad's promise, sent him to study under Picot, a second-See also:rate artist but See also:clever teacher . The only See also:influence which really affected See also:Moreau's development was that of the painter See also:Chasseriau (1819—1857), with whom he was intimate when they both lived in the See also:Rue Frochot, and of whom we find reminiscences even in his later See also:works . Moreau's first picture was a " Pieta " (1852), now in the See also:cathedral at See also:Angouleme . In the See also:Salon of 1853 he exhibited a " See also:Scene from the See also:Song of Songs " (now in the See also:Dijon Museum) and the " See also:Death of See also:Darius " (in the Moreau See also:Gallery, Paris), both conspicuously under the influence of Chasseriau . To the See also:Great See also:Exhibition of 1855 he sent the " Athenians with the See also:Minotaur " (in the Museum at Bourg-en-See also:Bresse) and " See also:Moses putting off his Sandals within Sight of the Promised See also:Land." " See also:Oedipus and the See also:Sphinx," begun in 1862, and exhibited at the Salon of 1864, marked the beginning of his best See also:period, during which he See also:chose his subjects from See also:history, See also:religion, See also:legend and See also:fancy . In 1865 he exhibited " See also:Medea and See also:Jason " and " The See also:Young See also:Man and Death "; in 1866, the " See also:Head of See also:Orpheus " (in the Luxembourg Gallery) ; " See also:Hesiod and the Muse," a See also:drawing; and " The See also:Peri," a drawing; " See also:Prometheus " (in the Moreau Gallery); " See also:Jupiter and See also:Europa," a " Pieta," and " The See also:Saint and the Poet," in 1869 . After working in obscurity for seven years, he reappeared at the Salon in 1876 with " See also:Hercules and the See also:Hydra," " Saint See also:Sebastian," " See also:Salome Dancing " (presented to the Luxembourg by M . Hayem); and in 1878 with " The Sphinx's Riddle solved." " See also:Jacob," and " Moses on the See also:Nile." Moreau exhibited for the last See also:time at the Salon of 1880, when he contributed " See also:Helen " and " Galatea "; to the Great Exhibition of 1889 he again sent the " Galatea " and " The Young Man and Death." He took See also:prize medals at the Salon in 1864, 1865, 1869 and 1878 . He was made See also:knight of the See also:Legion of See also:Honour in 1875 and officer in 1883 . He succeeded See also:Delaunay as See also:professor at the Ecole See also:des See also:Beaux Arts, and his teaching was highly popular . When he died, on the 18th of April 1898, he bequeathed to the See also:state his See also:house, containing about 8000 pictures, See also:water-See also:colours, cartoons and drawings, which See also:form the Moreau Gallery, one of the best organized collections in Paris, arranged by M . Rupp, his executor, and, together with Delaunay and See also:Fromentin, one of his closest See also:friends . See A See also:Renan, Moreau (Paris, 1900) ; See also:Paul See also:Flat, Le Musee Gustave Moreau (Paris, 1900) . |
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