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Gustave Moreau
[French Symbolist Painter, 1826-1898]
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Moreau's figures are ambiguous; it is hardly possible to distinguish at the first glance which of two lovers is the man, which the woman; all his characters are linked by subtle bonds of relationship... lovers look as though they were related, brothers as though they were lovers, men have the faces of virgins, virgins the faces of youths; the symbols of Good and Evil are entwined and equivocally confused.
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Original works by Gustave Moreau available for purchase at art galleries worldwide
Paintings in Museums and Public Art Galleries:
 Art Institute of Chicago Art Explorer - Images and Text Resources
Art Institute of Chicago Collection Database NEW!
5 works by Gustave Moreau online
Gustave Moreau at the Detroit Institute of Arts, Michigan
J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles
Diomedes Devoured by Horses, 1851
Dejanira (Autumn), 1872
Gustave Moreau at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City 
Oedipus and the Sphinx, 1864
Musée d'Orsay, Paris NEW!
Commentary on Galatea
Musée d'Orsay, Paris NEW!
Commentary on Orpheus
Musée d'Orsay Collection Database, Paris NEW!
6 works by Gustave Moreau online
Musée National Gustave Moreau, Paris
National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa 
Gustave Moreau at the National Gallery, London, UK
Saint George and the Dragon
Armand Hammer Museum of Art at UCLA, California
Salome Dancing before Herod, 1876
Harvard University Art Museums, Massachusetts NEW!
Joconde Database of French Museum Collections (in French) 
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Museum of Fine Arts, Gifu, Japan
National Museum of Western Art, Tokyo
Saint Louis Art Museum, Missouri
The Martyred Saint Sebastian, 1869
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Peter Nahum At The Leicester Galleries, London, UK
Archive of past displayed works which are "sold" or "not for sale"
Professional Tools:
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Pictures from Image Archives:
Gustave Moreau in the Art Renewal Center
Gustave Moreau in the Artchive
Artcyclopedia
Masterscan feature: Oedipus and the Sphinx
Artonline
Gustave Moreau at CGFA
Gustave Moreau at Insecula
Gustave Moreau in the WebMuseum 
Wikimedia Commons Image Database
ArtMagick
Artyst, Peintures du Monde (in French)
Artyzm
Bildindex der Kunst und Architektur (in German)
Boston College Fine Arts Department
California State University WorldImages Database
Ciudad de la Pintura (in Spanish)
El Poder de la Palabra (The Power of the Word) (in Spanish)
The Athenaeum
109 works online by Moreau
Other Web Sites:
Beloit College Department of Classics
Helen on the Walls of Troy
FBI Art Theft Program
L 'Enlevement de Ganymede
Jacques-Edouard Berger Foundation
Museo Virtual del Surrealismo
Salome
Myth Man - Greek Mythology Today
The Torture of Prometheus, 1868
The Modernist Journals Project NEW!
Articles:
Encyclopedia Britannica complete article on Gustave Moreau
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Union List of Artist Names (Getty Museum)
Reference sheet with basic information about the artist and pointers to other references.
Wikipedia, the "Open Content" Encyclopedia
Biographical info
The New York Observer
Article by Hilton Kramer: The Sublime Matisse Loved Ridiculous Gustave Moreau
Time Magazine
"Gustave Moreau", 1974 article by Robert Hughes
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