Artworks · Gustave Moreau

Pittacus the Tyrant in War Costume

1883 · graphite with watercolor on wove paper

overall: 33.1 x 18.2 cm (13 1/16 x 7 3/16 in.)

National Gallery of Art

Inspiration

1883 · Watercolor and gouache, with pen and blue ink, over traces of graphite, on ivory wove paper, wrapped and adhered on verso to wood pulp board

29.9 × 23 cm (11 13/16 × 9 1/16 in.)

Art Institute of Chicago

Hercules and the Lernaean Hydra

1875 · Oil on canvas

179.3 × 154 cm (70 9/16 × 60 5/8 in.); Framed: 226.7 × 201.9 cm (89 1/4 × 79 1/2 in.)

Art Institute of Chicago

Salome with the Head of John the Baptist

1871 · Oil on wood

8 1/2 × 4 3/4 in. (21.6 × 12.1 cm)

The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Hercules and the Hydra of Lerna

1866 · Pen and brown and black ink and graphite, with touches of brush and brown wash, heightened with lead white, discolored, on cream laid paper prepared with a pale brown wash, tipped on blue laid paper, laid down on cream board

18.3 × 15.8 cm (7 1/4 × 6 1/4 in.)

Art Institute of Chicago

La Peri (Mythological Subject)

1865 · Graphite, with brush and black ink, gray wash, and touches of gold metallic paint, heightened with traces of white gouache, on cream wove tracing paper, laid down on ivory wove paper

35.7 × 25.5 cm (14 1/16 × 10 1/16 in.)

Art Institute of Chicago

Oedipus and the Sphinx

1864 · Oil on canvas

81 1/4 × 41 1/4 in. (206.4 × 104.8 cm)

The Metropolitan Museum of Art

The Good Samaritan

1860 · watercolor, gouache, and graphite on paper

Sheet: 21 x 29.4 cm (8 1/4 x 11 9/16 in.)

Cleveland Museum of Art

Portrait of Eugène Lacheurié

1852 · Graphite on ivory wove paper

32.3 × 24.5 cm (12 3/4 × 9 11/16 in.)

Art Institute of Chicago

Salomé Dancing Before the Head of St. John the Baptist

1846 · Graphite, watercolor and gouache on cream wove paper

9 13/16 × 7 1/16 in. (25 × 18 cm) Framed: 21 1/4 × 16 1/4 in. (54 × 41.3 cm)

The Metropolitan Museum of Art