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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. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Gustave Moreau has received more than 763,755 page views. His biography is available in 48 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 45 in 2019). Gustave Moreau is the 123rd most popular painter (down from 117th in 2019), the 395th most popular biography from France (down from 345th in 2019) and the 34th 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 123 out of 2,023. Before him are Juan Gris, Fernando Botero, Yayoi Kusama, Apelles, Arnold Böcklin, and Andrea del Sarto. After him are Parmigianino, Gerrit Dou, Hans Memling, John Constable, Carl Larsson, and Franz Marc.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1826, Gustave Moreau ranks 5. Before him are Bernhard Riemann, Carlo Collodi, Eugénie de Montijo, and Charles XV of Sweden. After him are Wilhelm Liebknecht, Ludwig Minkus, Stanislao Cannizzaro, Frederic Edwin Church, Frederick I, Grand Duke of Baden, Danilo I, Prince of Montenegro, and Alexander Afanasyev. Among people deceased in 1898, Gustave Moreau ranks 5. Before him are Otto von Bismarck, Empress Elisabeth of Austria, Lewis Carroll, and Stéphane Mallarmé. After him are Charbel Makhlouf, Eugène Boudin, Ivan Shishkin, Louise of Hesse-Kassel, Johann Jakob Balmer, Charles Garnier, and Ferdinand Cohn.

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In France

Among people born in France, Gustave Moreau ranks 395 out of 6,770. Before him are Claude Adrien Helvétius (1715), Henri Cartier-Bresson (1908), Jules Rimet (1873), Ernest Renan (1823), Paul Éluard (1895), and James I of Aragon (1208). After him are Dagobert I (611), Pierre Laval (1883), Liliane Bettencourt (1922), Ferdinand de Lesseps (1805), Camille Desmoulins (1760), and Gaspard Monge (1746).

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Among PAINTERS In France

Among painters born in France, Gustave Moreau ranks 34. Before him are Paul Signac (1863), Jean-Antoine Watteau (1684), William-Adolphe Bouguereau (1825), Claude Lorrain (1600), Hyacinthe Rigaud (1659), and Georges de La Tour (1593). After him are Jean Fouquet (1420), Jean-Baptiste-Siméon Chardin (1699), Fernand Léger (1881), Jean Dubuffet (1901), Odilon Redon (1840), and Robert Campin (1375).

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