1826 - 1898
Gustave Moreau (French: [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 560,524 page views. His biography is available in 45 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 43 in 2019). Gustave Moreau is the 102nd most popular painter (up from 107th in 2019), the 309th most popular biography from France (up from 315th in 2019) and the 32nd 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, Gustave Moreau ranks 102 out of 1,428. Before him are Duccio, Hans Memling, Lili Elbe, Oskar Kokoschka, Canaletto, and Jean-Baptiste-Siméon Chardin. After him are Simone Martini, Guido Reni, Franz Marc, Apelles, Ivan Aivazovsky, and Francis Bacon.
1255 - 1319
HPI: 78.07
Rank: 96
1435 - 1494
HPI: 78.01
Rank: 97
1882 - 1931
HPI: 77.97
Rank: 98
1886 - 1980
HPI: 77.93
Rank: 99
1697 - 1768
HPI: 77.82
Rank: 100
1699 - 1779
HPI: 77.58
Rank: 101
1826 - 1898
HPI: 77.57
Rank: 102
1284 - 1344
HPI: 77.52
Rank: 103
1575 - 1642
HPI: 77.51
Rank: 104
1880 - 1916
HPI: 77.45
Rank: 105
370 BC - 306 BC
HPI: 77.42
Rank: 106
1817 - 1900
HPI: 77.26
Rank: 107
1909 - 1992
HPI: 77.26
Rank: 108
Among people born in 1826, Gustave Moreau ranks 4. Before him are Bernhard Riemann, Carlo Collodi, and Eugénie de Montijo. After him are Charles XV of Sweden, Ludwig Minkus, Wilhelm Liebknecht, Zénobe Gramme, Armand David, Alexander Afanasyev, Frederick I, Grand Duke of Baden, and Stanislao Cannizzaro. 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 Johann Jakob Balmer, Charbel Makhlouf, Eugène Boudin, Louise of Hesse-Kassel, Ivan Shishkin, William Ewart Gladstone, and Pierre Puvis de Chavannes.
1826 - 1866
HPI: 83.87
Rank: 1
1826 - 1890
HPI: 81.14
Rank: 2
1826 - 1920
HPI: 78.67
Rank: 3
1826 - 1898
HPI: 77.57
Rank: 4
1826 - 1872
HPI: 76.92
Rank: 5
1826 - 1917
HPI: 71.27
Rank: 6
1826 - 1900
HPI: 70.99
Rank: 7
1826 - 1901
HPI: 69.39
Rank: 8
1826 - 1900
HPI: 69.33
Rank: 9
1826 - 1871
HPI: 68.79
Rank: 10
1826 - 1907
HPI: 68.64
Rank: 11
1826 - 1910
HPI: 68.42
Rank: 12
1815 - 1898
HPI: 89.69
Rank: 1
1837 - 1898
HPI: 86.42
Rank: 2
1832 - 1898
HPI: 83.81
Rank: 3
1842 - 1898
HPI: 79.56
Rank: 4
1826 - 1898
HPI: 77.57
Rank: 5
1825 - 1898
HPI: 75.17
Rank: 6
1828 - 1898
HPI: 74.97
Rank: 7
1824 - 1898
HPI: 74.63
Rank: 8
1817 - 1898
HPI: 73.99
Rank: 9
1832 - 1898
HPI: 73.42
Rank: 10
1809 - 1898
HPI: 73.24
Rank: 11
1824 - 1898
HPI: 73.09
Rank: 12
Among people born in France, Gustave Moreau ranks 309 out of 5,234. Before him are Frédéric Mistral (1830), Marc-Antoine Charpentier (1645), Honoré Gabriel Riqueti, comte de Mirabeau (1749), Fernand Braudel (1902), Henri Cartier-Bresson (1908), and Jean-Baptiste-Siméon Chardin (1699). After him are Antonin Artaud (1896), Philippe II, Duke of Orléans (1674), Nicolas Sarkozy (1955), Eugène de Beauharnais (1781), François Hollande (1954), and Paul Valéry (1871).
1830 - 1914
HPI: 77.71
Rank: 303
1645 - 1704
HPI: 77.70
Rank: 304
1749 - 1791
HPI: 77.70
Rank: 305
1902 - 1985
HPI: 77.70
Rank: 306
1908 - 2004
HPI: 77.62
Rank: 307
1699 - 1779
HPI: 77.58
Rank: 308
1826 - 1898
HPI: 77.57
Rank: 309
1896 - 1948
HPI: 77.53
Rank: 310
1674 - 1723
HPI: 77.51
Rank: 311
1955 - Present
HPI: 77.51
Rank: 312
1781 - 1824
HPI: 77.50
Rank: 313
1954 - Present
HPI: 77.49
Rank: 314
1871 - 1945
HPI: 77.47
Rank: 315
Among painters born in France, Gustave Moreau ranks 32. Before him are Berthe Morisot (1841), Paul Signac (1863), Georges de La Tour (1593), Claude Lorrain (1600), William-Adolphe Bouguereau (1825), and Jean-Baptiste-Siméon Chardin (1699). After him are Élisabeth Vigée Le Brun (1755), Jean Fouquet (1420), Fernand Léger (1881), Jean-Léon Gérôme (1824), Odilon Redon (1840), and Robert Campin (1375).
1841 - 1895
HPI: 78.81
Rank: 26
1863 - 1935
HPI: 78.71
Rank: 27
1593 - 1652
HPI: 78.64
Rank: 28
1600 - 1682
HPI: 78.14
Rank: 29
1825 - 1905
HPI: 78.13
Rank: 30
1699 - 1779
HPI: 77.58
Rank: 31
1826 - 1898
HPI: 77.57
Rank: 32
1755 - 1842
HPI: 76.97
Rank: 33
1420 - 1480
HPI: 76.75
Rank: 34
1881 - 1955
HPI: 76.66
Rank: 35
1824 - 1904
HPI: 76.41
Rank: 36
1840 - 1916
HPI: 76.06
Rank: 37
1375 - 1444
HPI: 76.05
Rank: 38