Gustave MoreauFrench, 1826–1898Orphée sur la tombe d'Eurydice
Can I see it?
Unknown
Where is “Orphée sur la tombe d'Eurydice” 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. 194
What it shows
In the catalog
Sources
- Musée Gustave-Moreau
- Image: Musée Gustave-Moreau — © 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
1888
Travel: Belgium
1888
Travel: Netherlands
1888–1898 · Workplace
Paris
28 March 1890
The death of Alexandrine Dureux
Alexandrine Dureux died on 28 March 1890 after five months of deteriorating health, and Moreau was at her bedside. He bought back from her heirs the watercolours he had given her and some furniture, placing them in a room of his house in her memory, and designed her tombstone himself, engraved with their interlaced initials. Both deaths reinforced his isolation, and his work took on an even greater melancholic edge.
October 1891 – January 1892
Takes over Delaunay’s studio at the École des Beaux-Arts
On his deathbed Élie Delaunay asked Moreau to succeed him and direct one of the school’s main ateliers. Moreau reluctantly took the class on a temporary basis in October 1891, but in January 1892, at the age of sixty-five, he accepted the appointment of professor and atelier director.
