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Identification and Creation

Object Number
2011.31
People
Gustave Moreau, French (Paris 1826 - 1898 Paris)
Title
Hesiod and the Muse
Classification
Drawings
Work Type
drawing
Date
1857
Culture
French
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/312383

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Black conté crayon(?), graphite, brown ink, and white gouache on off-white wove paper
Dimensions
41.9 x 33 cm (16 1/2 x 13 in.)
Inscriptions and Marks
  • Signed: lower right, brown ink: Gustave Moreau - 1857. Rome.
  • inscription: upper left, graphite: HÉSIODE ET LA MUSE.

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History
The artist, gift; to Mme Alexandre (Flore) Singer, gift; to Emile Ollivier. [Hotel Drouot, Paris, March 2, 1960, lot 1 (as "L'Inspiration du poète"), sold]; to [Germain Seligman, New York (his stamp, lower right)]. [possibly Hazlitt, Gooden & Fox, London]. [Robert M. Light, Santa Barbara, sold, August 1, 1978]; to David P. Becker, bequeathed; to Harvard Art Museums, 2011

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Bequest of David P. Becker
Accession Year
2011
Object Number
2011.31
Division
European and American Art
Contact
am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
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Publication History

  • Exposition Gustave Moreau au profit des oeuvres du travail et des pauvres honteux, exh. cat., Galerie Georges Petit (Paris, France, 1906), cat. no. 193
  • Master Drawings, exh. cat., Jacques Seligmann & Co. (New York, 1960), no. 26
  • Pamela G. Osler, "Gustave Moreau: Some Drawings from the Italian Sojourn", National Gallery of Canada Bulletin (1968), 6, pp. 22, 24, 27, fig. 5
  • Jane van Nuis Cahill, French Artists in Italy, 1600-1900, exh. cat., Dayton Art Institute (Dayton, OH, 1971), no. 49, repr.
  • Julius Kaplan, Gustave Moreau, exh. cat., Los Angeles County Museum of Art (Los Angeles, CA, 1974), no. 20, repr., pp. 21, 129
  • Peter Hahlbrock, Gustave Moreau oder das Unbehagen in der Natur, Rembrandt Verlag (Berlin, 1976), p. 191, under no. 91
  • Pierre-Louis Mathieu, Gustave Moreau: with a catalogue of the finished paintings watercolors, and drawings, New York Graphic Society (Boston, MA, 1976), pp. 62, 267 (n. 193), no. 41, repr.
  • John Richardson, ed., The Collection of Germain Seligman: Paintings, Drawings and Works of Art, E. V. Thaw & Co., Artemis S.A., and David Carritt Ltd. (New York, Luxembourg, and London, 1979), no. 58, repr.
  • Julius Kaplan, The Art of Gustave Moreau: Theory, Style, and Content, U.M.I. Research Press (Ann Arbor, MI, 1982), pp. 33, 182 (n. 73)
  • Pierre-Louis Mathieu, Gustave Moreau: The Watercolors, Hudson Hills Press (New York, NY, 1985), p. 16
  • Toni Stooss and Pierre-Louis Mathieu, Gustave Moreau, Symboliste, exh. cat., Kunsthaus Zürich (Zurich, Switzerland, 1986), no. 11, repr.
  • Mimi Cazort, Master Drawings from the National Gallery of Canada, exh. cat., National Gallery of Art (Washington, D.C, 1988), p. 217 (n. 8)
  • Luisa Capodieci, "L'iniziazione di Gustavo l'eremita", Art e Dossier, Giunti Editore (Florence, Italy, November 1996), p. 12, repr.
  • Geneviève Lacambre, Gustave Moreau: Maître Sorcier, Réunion des Musées Nationaux (Paris, France, 1997), p. 38
  • Geneviève Lacambre, Gustave Moreau, 1826-1898, exh. cat., Réunion des Musées Nationaux (Paris, France, 1998), no. 15, repr. (color), p. 262
  • Pierre-Louis Mathieu, Gustave Moreau: Monographie et nouveau catalogue de l'oeuvre achevé, ACR Édition (Paris, France, 1998), no. 51, repr., also repr. p. 135 (color)
  • Geneviève Lacambre, Gustave Moreau: Magic and Symbols, Harry N. Abrams, Inc. (New York, NY, 1999), p. 38
  • Jenny Strauss Clay, Hesiod's Cosmos, Cambridge University Press (Cambridge, 2003), repr. on cover
  • Olivier Bonfait, ed., Maestà di Roma da Napoleone all'unità d'Italia: D'Ingres à Degas, les artistes français à Rome, exh. cat., Electa (Milan, 2003), fig. 202a (p. 365)
  • Sonia Couturier, French Drawings from the National Gallery of Canada / Dessins français du Musée des beaux-arts du Canada, exh. cat., National Gallery of Canada (Ottawa, 2004), under cat. no. 56, p. 139, fig. 85, repr.
  • Ferenc Tóth, ed., Land of Myths: The Art of Gustave Moreau, exh. cat., Museum of Fine Arts, Budapest (Budapest, 2009), p. 50, fig. 30
  • Louis-Antoine Prat, Le dessin français au XIXe siècle, Somogy Éditions d'Art (Paris, 2011), p. 472

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
  • Master Drawings, Jacques Seligmann & Co., New York, 11/07/1960 - 11/28/1960
  • French Artists in Italy, 1600-1900, Dayton Art Institute, Dayton, 10/28/1971 - 11/28/1971
  • Gustave Moreau, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, 07/23/1974 - 09/01/1974; California Palace of the Legion of Honor, San Francisco, 09/14/1974 - 11/03/1974
  • Gustave Moreau Symboliste, Kunsthaus Zürich, Zurich, 03/14/1986 - 05/25/1986
  • Gustave Moreau 1826-1898, Galeries Nationales du Grand Palais, Paris, 09/29/1998 - 01/04/1999; Art Institute of Chicago, Publications, Chicago, 02/13/1999 - 04/25/1999; The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, 05/24/1999 - 08/22/1999
  • Recent Acquisitions, Part II: Building the Collection, Harvard Art Museums, Cambridge, 06/19/2012 - 09/29/2012

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