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 724,414 page views. His biography is available in 45 different languages on Wikipedia. Gustave Moreau is the 117th most popular painter (down from 102nd in 2019), the 345th most popular biography from France (down from 308th 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 117 out of 1,421. Before him are Antonio da Correggio, Giorgio de Chirico, Bronzino, Annibale Carracci, Mary Cassatt, and Pieter Brueghel the Younger. After him are Umberto Boccioni, Apelles, Arnold Böcklin, Mark Rothko, Jan Steen, and Charles Le Brun.
1489 - 1534
HPI: 70.14
Rank: 111
1888 - 1978
HPI: 70.07
Rank: 112
1503 - 1572
HPI: 70.03
Rank: 113
1560 - 1609
HPI: 70.02
Rank: 114
1844 - 1926
HPI: 69.97
Rank: 115
1564 - 1636
HPI: 69.91
Rank: 116
1826 - 1898
HPI: 69.80
Rank: 117
1882 - 1916
HPI: 69.76
Rank: 118
370 BC - 306 BC
HPI: 69.72
Rank: 119
1827 - 1901
HPI: 69.62
Rank: 120
1903 - 1970
HPI: 69.55
Rank: 121
1626 - 1679
HPI: 69.49
Rank: 122
1619 - 1690
HPI: 69.46
Rank: 123
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, Frederick I, Grand Duke of Baden, Stanislao Cannizzaro, Armand David, Zénobe Gramme, and Frederic Edwin Church. 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, Louise of Hesse-Kassel, Ivan Shishkin, Johann Jakob Balmer, Pierre Puvis de Chavannes, and John Newlands.
1826 - 1866
HPI: 79.62
Rank: 1
1826 - 1890
HPI: 75.12
Rank: 2
1826 - 1920
HPI: 73.04
Rank: 3
1826 - 1898
HPI: 69.80
Rank: 4
1826 - 1872
HPI: 68.92
Rank: 5
1826 - 1917
HPI: 63.31
Rank: 6
1826 - 1900
HPI: 63.16
Rank: 7
1826 - 1907
HPI: 60.82
Rank: 8
1826 - 1910
HPI: 60.48
Rank: 9
1826 - 1900
HPI: 60.37
Rank: 10
1826 - 1901
HPI: 59.22
Rank: 11
1826 - 1900
HPI: 59.08
Rank: 12
1815 - 1898
HPI: 86.51
Rank: 1
1837 - 1898
HPI: 83.26
Rank: 2
1832 - 1898
HPI: 77.31
Rank: 3
1842 - 1898
HPI: 72.30
Rank: 4
1826 - 1898
HPI: 69.80
Rank: 5
1828 - 1898
HPI: 67.48
Rank: 6
1824 - 1898
HPI: 67.13
Rank: 7
1817 - 1898
HPI: 66.46
Rank: 8
1832 - 1898
HPI: 65.58
Rank: 9
1825 - 1898
HPI: 65.09
Rank: 10
1824 - 1898
HPI: 64.61
Rank: 11
1837 - 1898
HPI: 63.85
Rank: 12
Among people born in France, Gustave Moreau ranks 345 out of 6,011. Before him are Gaspard-Gustave de Coriolis (1792), Elisabeth of France (1602), Raymond Poincaré (1860), Charles, Count of Valois (1270), Maurice Merleau-Ponty (1908), and Jean Arp (1886). After him are Jeanne d'Albret (1528), Joseph Marie Jacquard (1752), Marguerite de Navarre (1492), Roger Martin du Gard (1881), Paul Ricœur (1913), and James I of Aragon (1208).
1792 - 1843
HPI: 69.92
Rank: 339
1602 - 1644
HPI: 69.91
Rank: 340
1860 - 1934
HPI: 69.90
Rank: 341
1270 - 1325
HPI: 69.88
Rank: 342
1908 - 1961
HPI: 69.85
Rank: 343
1886 - 1966
HPI: 69.83
Rank: 344
1826 - 1898
HPI: 69.80
Rank: 345
1528 - 1572
HPI: 69.78
Rank: 346
1752 - 1834
HPI: 69.76
Rank: 347
1492 - 1549
HPI: 69.75
Rank: 348
1881 - 1958
HPI: 69.73
Rank: 349
1913 - 2005
HPI: 69.69
Rank: 350
1208 - 1276
HPI: 69.65
Rank: 351
Among painters born in France, Gustave Moreau ranks 32. Before him are Berthe Morisot (1841), Jean-Antoine Watteau (1684), Élisabeth Vigée Le Brun (1755), Claude Lorrain (1600), William-Adolphe Bouguereau (1825), and Georges de La Tour (1593). After him are Charles Le Brun (1619), Jean-Baptiste-Siméon Chardin (1699), Odilon Redon (1840), Robert Delaunay (1885), Fernand Léger (1881), and Jean Fouquet (1420).
1841 - 1895
HPI: 71.95
Rank: 26
1684 - 1721
HPI: 71.89
Rank: 27
1755 - 1842
HPI: 71.12
Rank: 28
1600 - 1682
HPI: 71.11
Rank: 29
1825 - 1905
HPI: 70.83
Rank: 30
1593 - 1652
HPI: 70.62
Rank: 31
1826 - 1898
HPI: 69.80
Rank: 32
1619 - 1690
HPI: 69.46
Rank: 33
1699 - 1779
HPI: 69.40
Rank: 34
1840 - 1916
HPI: 69.03
Rank: 35
1885 - 1941
HPI: 68.92
Rank: 36
1881 - 1955
HPI: 68.50
Rank: 37
1420 - 1480
HPI: 68.27
Rank: 38