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Identification and Creation
Object Number
1943.269
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People
Gustave Moreau, French (Paris 1826 - 1898 Paris)
Title
The Chimera
Classification
Paintings
Work Type
painting
Date
1867
Culture
French
Physical Descriptions
Medium
Oil on panel
Dimensions
33.02 x 27.31 cm (13 x 10 3/4 in.)
Inscriptions and Marks
Signed: l.l.: GM [monogram] / Gustave Moreau - 1867
inscription: Inscribed on back of stretcher: Top slat:
Chimere. Second slat: à Monsieur Bocquet.
Provenance
Gustave Moreau, 1867, sold; to Bocquet. Drouin. Willy
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Blumenthal, Paris, (by 1906-1935) sold; [through Martin
Birnbaum]; to Grenville L. Winthrop, 1935-1943)
bequest; to Fogg Art Museum, 1943.
Notes:
Bocquet paid 2,000 ff.
WIlly Blumenthal lent this to the 1906 exhibition.
Seligmann Gallery Archives record a visit to Willy
Blumenthal on March 19, 1935, and describe a painting
by Moreau: Centaure d'elançant dans le vide, une
femme s'accrochée à son cou.
Winthrop paid Fr 35,000
Acquisition and Rights
Credit Line
Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Bequest of
Grenville L. Winthrop
Accession Year
1943
Object Number
1943.269
Division
European and American Art
Contact
[email protected]
Publication History
Ary Renan, Gustave Moreau, Gazette des Beaux-Arts
(Paris, France, 1900), pp. 105-106, repr.
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Exposition Gustave Moreau au profit des oeuvres du
travail et des pauvres honteux, exh. cat., Galerie
Georges Petit (Paris, France, 1906), cat. no. 21
Pierre-Louis Mathieu, Gustave Moreau: with a
catalogue of the finished paintings watercolors, and
drawings, New York Graphic Society (Boston, MA,
1976), no. 87, repr. in b/w p. 100, p. 310
Jean Selz, Gustave Moreau, Flammarion (Paris, France,
1978), repr. in color p. 29
Jean Selz, Gustave Moreau, Crown Publications (New
York, NY, 1979), p. 51; color repr. p. 29
Edgar Peters Bowron, European Paintings Before 1900
in the Fogg Art Museum: A Summary Catalogue
including Paintings in the Busch-Reisinger Museum ,
Harvard University Art Museums (Cambridge, MA,
1990), p. 121; repr. as no. 316
Pierre-Louis Mathieu, Tout l'oeuvre peint de Gustave
Moreau, Flammarion (Paris, France, 1991), no. 121, p. 89
Willard Bohn, Apollinaire, Visual Poetry, and Art
Criticism , Associated University Presses/Lewisburg
Bucknell University Press (London and Toronto, 1993),
repr. in b/w opposite p. 130; mentioned p. 130
Pierre-Louis Mathieu, Gustave Moreau, Flammarion
(Paris, France, 1994), pp. 98-99, repr. p. 101
Gustave Moreau: Gyusutavu Moro, exh. cat., Nihon
Hoso Kyokai (Tokyo, Japan, 1995), p. 178, repr. b/w
Pierre-Louis Mathieu, Gustave Moreau: Monographie et
nouveau catalogue de l'oeuvre achevé, ACR Édition
(Paris, France, 1998), no. 104, p. 305, repr.
Geneviève Lacambre, Gustave Moreau: between Epic
and Dream , exh. cat., The Art Institute of Chicago
(Chicago, IL, 1999), p. 264
Chikashi Kitazaki, ed., Between Reality and Dreams:
Nineteenth Century British and French Art from the
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Winthrop Collection of the Fogg Art Museum , exh. cat.,
National Museum of Western Art (Ueno, Japan, 2002),
pp. 154-155, cat. #43, color repr.
Stephan Wolohojian, ed., A Private Passion: 19th-
Century Paintings and Drawings from the Grenville L.
Winthrop Collection, Harvard University, exh. cat., The
Metropolitan Museum of Art and Yale University Press
(New York, NY, 2003), no. 93, pp. 236-238, repr. in
color
Stephan Wolohojian, Ingres, Burne-Jones, Whistler,
Renoir... La Collection Grenville L. Winthrop, exh. cat.,
Musée des Beaux-Arts de Lyon and Réunion des
Musées Nationaux (Paris, France, 2003), no. 93, pp.
246-248, repr. in color
Dominique Cordellier, Louis-Antoine Prat, and Carel
van Tuyll van Serooskerken, ed., Maîtres du dessin
européen du XVIe au XXe siècle: la collection Georges
Pébereau, exh. cat., Musée du Louvre Éditions and
Somogy Éditions d'Art (Paris, 2009), under cat. no. 60,
p. 158
Peter Cooke, Gustave Moreau: History Painting,
Spirituality and Symbolism , Yale University Press (New
Haven and London, 2014), repr. p. 128 as fig. 81
Exhibition History
Exposition Gustave Moreau au profit des oeuvres du
travail et des pauvres honteux, Galerie Georges Petit,
Paris, 01/01/1906 - 12/31/1906
Moreau and Monticelli, Busch-Reisinger Museum,
Cambridge, 05/13/1960 - 06/08/1960
Pre-Raphaelite and Early French Symbolist Art in the
Fogg Collections, Fogg Art Museum, Cambridge,
01/16/1973 - 02/25/1973
Sublimations: Art and Sensuality in the 19th Century,
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Harvard University Art Museums, Cambridge,
07/13/1996 - 07/21/2002
Between Reality and Dreams: Nineteenth Century
British and French Art from the Winthrop Collection of
the Fogg Art Museum , National Museum of Western
Art, Tokyo, 09/14/2002 - 12/08/2002
A Private Passion: 19th-Century Paintings and
Drawings from the Grenville L. Winthrop Collection,
Harvard University, Musée des Beaux-Arts de Lyon,
Lyon, 03/15/2003 - 05/26/2003; National Gallery,
London, 06/25/2003 - 09/14/2003; The Metropolitan
Museum of Art, New York, 10/23/2003 - 01/25/2004
For Students of Art and Lovers of Beauty: Highlights
from the Collection of Grenville L. Winthrop, Harvard
University Art Museums, Fogg Art Museum,
Cambridge, 04/16/2004
Subjects and Contexts
Collection Highlights
Google Art Project
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