Chimera

This sumptuously colored, circular plaque depicts a chimera, a mythical hybrid of multiple animals, launching into the air from a rocky precipice with a nude woman clinging to him. It is the earliest and largest surviving product of the five-year collaboration between painter Gustave Moreau and enameler Frédéric Charlot de Courcy. In enamel painting, vitreous powders are mixed with a volatile oil, painted onto a metal support, and fired in a kiln. Artists, collectors, and critics admired the material’s jewel-like surfaces, bright colors, and ability to appear variably translucent and opaque.

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Hercules and the Lernaean Hydra, 1875–76

Beata Beatrix, 1871–72

The Bathers, 1884

Chariot Race, 1876

Odalisque, 1874

Portrait of a Woman, 1851

The First Whisper of Love, c. 1889

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Self-Portrait as a Chimera, c. 1880