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Gustave Moreau

1826 - 1898

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Gustave Moreau (French: [ɡystav mɔʁo]; 6 April 1826 – 18 April 1898) was a French artist and an important figure in the Symbolist movement. Jean Cassou called him "the Symbolist painter par excellence".: 110 p.  He was an influential forerunner of symbolism in the visual arts in the 1860s, and at the height of the symbolist movement in the 1890s, he was among the most significant painters. Art historian Robert Delevoy wrote that Moreau "brought symbolist polyvalence to its highest point in Jupiter and Semele.": 147 p.  He was a prolific artist who produced over 15,000 paintings, watercolors, and drawings. Moreau painted allegories and traditional biblical and mythological subjects favored by the fine art academies. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Gustave Moreau is the 128th most popular painter (down from 123rd in 2019), the 401st most popular biography from France (down from 395th in 2019) and the 35th most popular French Painter.

Gustave Moreau is most famous for his paintings of scenes from the Bible and from Greek mythology.

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Among PAINTERS

Among painters, Gustave Moreau ranks 128 out of 2,023. Before him are Giorgio de Chirico, Raja Ravi Varma, Annibale Carracci, Pierre Bonnard, Odilon Redon, and Franz Marc. After him are Albrecht Altdorfer, Hilma af Klint, Jean Dubuffet, Arnold Böcklin, Zeuxis, and André Derain.

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Among people born in 1826, Gustave Moreau ranks 5. Before him are Bernhard Riemann, Carlo Collodi, Charles XV of Sweden, and Eugénie de Montijo. After him are Cetshwayo kaMpande, Wilhelm Liebknecht, Ludwig Minkus, Stanislao Cannizzaro, Armand David, Frederick I, Grand Duke of Baden, and Danilo I, Prince of Montenegro. Among people deceased in 1898, Gustave Moreau ranks 6. Before him are Empress Elisabeth of Austria, Otto von Bismarck, William Ewart Gladstone, Lewis Carroll, and Stéphane Mallarmé. After him are Charbel Makhlouf, Johann Jakob Balmer, Syed Ahmad Khan, Ivan Shishkin, Louise of Hesse-Kassel, and Eugène Boudin.

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In France

Among people born in France, Gustave Moreau ranks 401 out of 6,770. Before him are Maurice Leblanc (1864), Jean-Louis Trintignant (1930), Raymond Kopa (1931), Odilon Redon (1840), Louis Antoine de Saint-Just (1767), and Louis IV of France (920). After him are Jules Rimet (1873), Albert Fert (1938), Frédéric Auguste Bartholdi (1834), Julien Offray de La Mettrie (1709), Jean-Pierre Sauvage (1944), and Charles, Count of Valois (1270).

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Among PAINTERS In France

Among painters born in France, Gustave Moreau ranks 35. Before him are Claude Lorrain (1600), William-Adolphe Bouguereau (1825), Georges de La Tour (1593), Jean-Baptiste-Siméon Chardin (1699), Pierre Bonnard (1867), and Odilon Redon (1840). After him are Jean Dubuffet (1901), André Derain (1880), Charles Le Brun (1619), Jean-Léon Gérôme (1824), Émile Bernard (1868), and Jean Fouquet (1420).

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