Gustave Moreau, French painter and academic (died 1898)

Gustave Moreau

French Symbolist painter (1826–1898)

Gustave Moreau was a French artist and an important figure in the Symbolist movement. Jean Cassou called him "the Symbolist painter par excellence". He was an influential forerunner of symbolism in the visual arts in the 1860s, and at the height of the symbolist movement in the…