Harvard Art Museums > 1943.269: The Chimera Paintings Collections Search Exit Deep Zoom Mode Zoom Out Zoom In Reset Zoom Full Screen Add to Collection Order Image Copy Link Copy Citation Citation"The Chimera (Gustave Moreau) , 1943.269,” Harvard Art Museums collections online, Oct 05, 2024, https://hvrd.art/o/230201. Reuse via IIIF Toggle Deep Zoom Mode Download This object does not yet have a description. Identification and Creation Object Number 1943.269 People Gustave Moreau, French (Paris 1826 - 1898 Paris) Title The Chimera Classification Paintings Work Type painting Date 1867 Culture French Persistent Link https://hvrd.art/o/230201 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 Recorded Ownership History Gustave Moreau, 1867, sold; to Bocquet. Drouin. Willy 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 am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu Permissions THIS WORK MAY NOT BE LENT BY THE TERMS OF ITS ACQUISITION TO THE HARVARD ART MUSEUMS. The Harvard Art Museums encourage the use of images found on this website for personal, noncommercial use, including educational and scholarly purposes. To request a higher resolution file of this image, please submit an online request. Publication History Ary Renan, Gustave Moreau, Gazette des Beaux-Arts (Paris, France, 1900), pp. 105-106, repr. 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 and Mina Oya, ed., Between Reality and Dreams: Nineteenth Century British and French Art from the Winthrop Collection of the Fogg Art Museum, exh. cat., National Museum of Western Art (Ueno, 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 (U.S.) (New York, 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 (U.S.) (New Haven and London, 2014), repr. p. 128 as fig. 81 Gustave Moreau (Tokyo, 2019), p. 44. repr. 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, 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 Verification Level This record has been reviewed by the curatorial staff but may be incomplete. Our records are frequently revised and enhanced. For more information please contact the Division of European and American Art at am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu