genre: mythological painting / artist: Gustave Moreau

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22 artworks found

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instance of: painting (21) | drawing (1) | polyptych (1)

movement: Symbolism (3)

depicts: nudity (9) | woman (6) | lyre (6) | flower (5) | Jupiter (4) | column (4) | Hesiod (4) | man (3) | swan (3) | Muses (3) | landscape (3) | angel (3) | death (2) | blood (2) | lightning (2) | cadaver (2) | shepherd (2) | Prometheus (2)

material used: oil paint (21) | canvas (15) | wood (4) | canvas (1)

collection: Musée Gustave-Moreau (13) | Musée d'Orsay (4) | Metropolitan Museum of Art (1) | Art Institute of Chicago (1) | private collection (1) | Musée des Beaux-Arts de Rouen (1) | Nahmad Collection (1)

location: Musée Gustave-Moreau (13) | Musée d'Orsay (4) | Metropolitan Museum of Art (1) | Art Institute of Chicago (1) | Musée des Beaux-Arts de Rouen (1)

country of origin: France (1)

exhibition history: Salon of 1869 (2) | Salon of 1866 (2) | International Exposition 1867 (1) | Salon of 1865 (1) | Salon of 1880 (1)

main subject: Leda and the Swan (1) | Galatea (1)

Hesiod and the Muses

painting
by Gustave Moreau (1882)
Hesiod herder Muses swan Pegasus putto landscape nudity shepherd

Hercules and the Lernaean Hydra

painting
by Gustave Moreau (1876)

Oedipus and the Sphinx

painting
by Gustave Moreau (1864)
Oedipus Sphinx

Orphés

painting
by Gustave Moreau (1865)
Orpheus lyre

Galatea

painting
by Gustave Moreau (1880s)
Polyphemus

Hesiod and the Muse

painting
by Gustave Moreau (1891)
Hesiod lyre Muses

Leda

painting
by Gustave Moreau (19th century)
Leda nudity ray lightning crown flower Jupiter swan genius gift woman divine glory

Jupiter and Semele

painting
by Gustave Moreau (1894)
throne lyre nudity death Pan architecture column pain lily sword Sphinx vegetation flower fruit Selene Jupiter sitting angel Caduceus woman divine glory Lotus Semele

Diomede devoured by his horses

painting
by Gustave Moreau (1865)
horse cadaver courtyard wall

Helen at the Scaean Gate

painting
by Gustave Moreau (1888s)
Helen of Troy crown rampart Troy city gate blood smoke woman

The Muses Leaving Their Father Apollo to Go and Light the World

painting
by Gustave Moreau (1868)
column vase flower swan griffin Mount Parnassus Muses lyre Apollo throne

Pasiphaë

painting
by Gustave Moreau (1880s)
Pasiphaë bull nudity lovers' embrace

Jason

painting
by Gustave Moreau (1865)
column flower garland Jason Medea nudity sceptre Golden Fleece

Jupiter and Semele

painting
by Gustave Moreau (1890s)
sceptre lyre snake lightning nudity death eagle zodiac Jupiter Semele love woman genius man

The Rape of Europe

painting
by Gustave Moreau (1868)
Europa nudity kidnapping flower landscape Jupiter bull woman

Apollo and The Nine Muses

painting
by Gustave Moreau (1856)

Le Grand Pan contemple les Sphères Célestes

drawing
by Gustave Moreau (1897)
Pan sky angel

Life of Humanity

painting / polyptych
by Gustave Moreau (1886)
angel animal cadaver Cain singing victory column Garden of Eden Eve Hesiod man lyre murder bird Orpheus pleurant prayer Salvator Mundi blood Sun solitude sleep sadness

Le Poète et la Sirène

painting
by Gustave Moreau (1893)

Prometheus

painting
by Gustave Moreau (1868)
Prometheus nudity prisoner torture vulture landscape rock column man

Hesiod and the Muse

painting
by Gustave Moreau (1870)
Erato woman sitting swagger stick rock dog Hesiod herder shepherd

Prometheus, Variant

painting
by Gustave Moreau (1870s)
Prometheus Griffon Vulture torch nudity