Gustave MoreauFrench, 1826–1898Jacob et l'Ange
Can I see it?
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Where is “Jacob et l'Ange” now? Collection: Musée Gustave-Moreau, Paris. Unknown.
Paris, France
The owner is known; whether it is on view today is not.
- In this state since
- Source
- The museum
Details
- Accession number
- Cat. 444
In the catalog
Sources
- Musée Gustave-Moreau
- Image: Musée Gustave-Moreau — © R.G. Ojeda ; Réunion des musées nationaux - utilisation soumise à autorisation; Ministère de la Culture (France), base Joconde
In the life of Gustave Moreau
The whole life1859–1888 · Workplace
Paris
1876
Return to the Salon: “Salome”
After the break Moreau returned to the Salon. That year he completed “Salome Dancing before Herod”, which announced the more painterly style that would characterize his later works.
1878
“Phaeton” at the World’s Fair stuns Redon
At the 1878 World’s Fair Moreau’s watercolour “Phaeton” so struck Odilon Redon that he wrote of its power to renew old art. Redon, like many critics of the time, saw Moreau’s chief merit in giving traditional painting a new direction, building a bridge between past and future.
1879
Anthony Roux commissions works on La Fontaine’s “Fables”
In 1879 the collector Anthony Roux commissioned several artists, among them Moreau, Baudry, Delaunay, Doré, Gervex, Harpignies, Hébert, Raffaëlli and Ziem, to produce works based on La Fontaine’s Fables.
1880
His last exhibition: “Helen” and “Galatea”
In 1880 Moreau took part in an exhibition for the last time, showing “Helen at the Walls of Troy”, in which the woman appears as a depraved creature guilty of war and the death of men, and “Galatea”, whose heroine is an object of desire on which the huge eye of the cyclops in love is vainly fixed.
