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Artist galleriesGustave Moreau's contemporaries

Gustave Moreau's contemporaries

Oedipus and the Sphinx, by Gustave Moreau, 1864
A work made of watercolor and gouache, with pen and blue ink, over traces of graphite, on ivory wove paper, wrapped and adhered on verso to wood pulp board.
Color pastel drawing of ballerinas in tutus on stage, watched by audience.
Life-size painting of an urban scene in Paris. A man in a top hat holding an umbrella and a woman in a long fashionable dark dress walk arm in arm toward the viewer as other city dwellers with umbrellas walk in various directions across cobblestone roads and sidewalks.
On the Beach, Sunset, by Eugène Boudin, 1865

The works in this room are listed below.

Works in this room

A few works by Gustave Moreau, then their contemporaries: makers of the same nationality born within 25 years of them, then works from the same century and place.

Section 1, north wall

  1. Oedipus and the Sphinx, by Gustave Moreau, 1864
    Oedipus and the SphinxGustave Moreau, 1864Courtesy of The Metropolitan Museum of Art
  2. A work made of watercolor and gouache, with pen and blue ink, over traces of graphite, on ivory wove paper, wrapped and adhered on verso to wood pulp board.
    InspirationGustave Moreau, c. 1893Courtesy of the Art Institute of Chicago

Their contemporaries

  1. Color pastel drawing of ballerinas in tutus on stage, watched by audience.
    Ballet at the Paris OpéraEdgar Degas, 1877Courtesy of the Art Institute of Chicago
  2. Life-size painting of an urban scene in Paris. A man in a top hat holding an umbrella and a woman in a long fashionable dark dress walk arm in arm toward the viewer as other city dwellers with umbrellas walk in various directions across cobblestone roads and sidewalks.
    Paris Street; Rainy DayGustave Caillebotte, 1877Courtesy of the Art Institute of Chicago
  3. On the Beach, Sunset, by Eugène Boudin, 1865
    On the Beach, SunsetEugène Boudin, 1865Courtesy of The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Their contemporaries, second

  1. A work made of oil on canvas.
    The Roll Call of the Last Victims of the TerrorCharles Louis-Lucien Muller, c. 1850Courtesy of the Art Institute of Chicago
  2. Mount Sainte-Victoire, by Paul Cézanne, c. 1904
    Mount Sainte-VictoirePaul Cézanne, c. 1904Courtesy of the Cleveland Museum of Art
  3. A work made of lithograph from two stones on off-white wove paper.
    Interior of the Lemercier Lithographic Printing HouseCharles Villemin, n.d.Courtesy of the Art Institute of Chicago