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Gustave Moreau
French (Paris 1826 - 1898 Paris)
The Young Man and Death, 1856-1865

Le Jeune Homme et la Mort / A la Memoire de Theodore Chasseriau
Painting
Oil on canvas
215.9 x 123.19 cm (85 x 48 1/2 in.)
framed: 234.32 x 142.88 x 5.08 cm (92 1/4 x 56 1/4 x 2 in.)
Signed: l.l.: Gustave Moreau
Harvard Art Museum/Fogg Museum, Gift of Grenville L. Winthrop, Class of 1886, 1942.186
Department of Paintings, Sculpture & Decorative Arts

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Marks: inscription: l.l., in artist's hand: A la mémoire / de Théodore Chassériau.
Provenance: Gustave Moreau, Created, 1856, Sold to Faivre, 1870.
Faivre, Purchased from the artist, 1870. Faivre paid the artist 6,000 francs.
Albert Cahen d'Anvers, Paris, 1889, To his wife Mme. Cahen d'Anvers.
Mme. Cahen D'Anvers, From her husband, Albert, Sold at Hotel Drouot, 1920. No. 20 in the sale, bought for Fr 81,000
Comte Roederer, Paris, sold to Grenville L. Winthrop, 1935. Sold through Martin Birnbaum, August 1935.
Grenville Lindall Winthrop, Purchase from Roederer through Martin Birnbaum, 1935, Gift to Fogg Art Museum, 1942. Winthrop paid Fr 180,000 for this work and 1943.262.
Bibliography: Maxime du Camp, "[Unidentified article]", Revue des Deux Mondes (June 1, 1865)

"[Unidentified article]", Le Moniteur Universel (July 9, 1865)

Ary Renan, "Gustave Moreau", Gazette des Beaux-Arts (May 1886), ser. 2, 33, pp. 377-94, p. 378

Arthur Baignières, "Théodore Chassériau", Gazette des Beaux-Arts (March 1, 1886), ser. 2, 31, pp. 209-218, p. 218

Ary Renan, "Gustave Moreau", Gazette des Beaux-Arts (July 1886), ser. 2, 34, pp. 35-51, pp. 42-44

Antonin Proust, L'Art Français: publication officielle de la commission des beaux-arts, Ludovic Baschet (Paris, France, 1889), repr. facing p. 42

Paul Leprieur, "Gustave Moreau et son Oeuvre", L'Artiste (March - June 1889), 59, no. 1, pp. 161-180, 338-359, 443-455

Jean Lorrain, La Jeune Homme et la Mort (poem), L'Ombre Ardente, Charpentier (Paris, France, 1897)

Ary Renan, Gustave Moreau, Gazette des Beaux-Arts (Paris, France, 1900), p. 28; repr. as engraving, facing p. 54

Edouard Schure, Precurseurs et revoltes (Paris, France, 1904)

Jean Laran and Leon Deshairs, Gustave Moreau, Librairie centrale des beaux-arts (Paris, France, 1913), repr. p. 32, text pp. 31-32

"[Unidentified article]", Art et Decoration (June 1920), repr.

Fernand Romanet, "Gustave Moreau (à propos de son centenaire)", La Revue Hebdomadaire (April 17 1926), pp. 310-330, p. 313, n. 1

Léonce Bénédite, Théodore Chassériau, sa vie et son oeuvre, Braun et Cie (Paris, France, 1931), repr. vol. II, plate LIX, opp. p. 518

Joseph C. Sloane, French Painting Between the Past and the Present, Princeton University Press (Princeton, NJ, 1951), pp. 172-175, repr. plate 72

Barbara Wright, "Gustave Moreau and Eugene Fromentin", The Connoisseur (July 1972), pp. 191-197, repr. fig. 4, p. 196

Henri Dorra, "The Guesser Guessed: Gustave Moreau's 'Oedipus' ", Gazette des Beaux-Arts (March 1973), pp. 129-140, repr. fig. 4

Julius Kaplan, Gustave Moreau, exh. cat., Los Angeles County Museum of Art (Los Angeles, CA, 1974), pp. 12, 19, 21; repr. as fig. 11

Pierre-Louis Mathieu, Gustave Moreau: with a catalogue of the finished paintings watercolors, and drawings, New York Graphic Society (Boston, MA, 1976), pp. 14, 33, 52, 90-92, 99, 110, cat. no. 67, repr. b/w p. 91, p. 306

Jean Selz, Gustave Moreau, Crown Publications (New York, NY, 1979), pp. 26, 45, 46

Julius Kaplan, The Art of Gustave Moreau: Theory, Style, and Content, U.M.I. Research Press (Ann Arbor, MI, 1982), repr. in b/w pl. 7; text p. 30-32, 47-48

Jean Ransy, "Gustave Moreau", Bulletin de la classe des beaux-arts (1983), vol. 65, no. 2, p. 252

Virginia M. Allen, The Femme Fatale: Erotic Icon, Whitston Publishing Co (Troy, NY, 1983), repr. fig. 38; text p. 161

Pierre-Louis Mathieu, Gustave Moreau: The Watercolors, Hudson Hills Press (New York, NY, 1985), pp. 38-40

Edgar Peters Bowron, European Painting Before 1900 in the Fogg Art Museum, Harvard University Art Museums (Cambridge, MA, 1990), p. 121; repr. as no. 318

Pierre-Louis Mathieu, Tout l'oeuvre peint de Gustave Moreau, Flammarion (Paris, France, 1991), no. 106, p. 87 and color plate IX

Pierre Somville, "Amour et mort chez H. Baldung Grien, G. Moreau et F. Rops", Art et Fact (Liege, 1991), vol. 10, p. 69; repr. fig. 4

Rudolph Binion, Love Beyond Death: The Anatomy of a Myth in the Arts, New York University Press (New York, NY, 1993), p. 56, repr. p. 67, fig. 43

Pierre-Louis Mathieu, Gustave Moreau, Flammarion (Paris, France, 1994), pp. 83, 85, repr., 86

Jonathan P. Ribner, "Chasseriau's juvenilia: some early works by an enfant du siècle", Zeitschrift für Kunstgeschichte (1994), vol. 57, no. 2, p. 238, repr. fig. 28

Gustave Moreau: Gyusutavu Moro, exh. cat., Nihon Hoso Kyokai (Tokyo, Japan, 1995), p. 192, repr. b/w

Geneviève Lacambre, Moreau (November 1996), p. 8, repr.

Geneviève Lacambre, Gustave Moreau: Maître Sorcier, Réunion des Musées Nationaux (Paris, France, 1997), p. 23

Dominique Dussol, Art et Bourgeoisie: La Societe des Amis des Arts de Bordeau (1851-1939), Le Festin, Fournie (Toulouse, France, 1997), pp. 10, repr. in color, 159

Geneviève Lacambre, Gustave Moreau, 1826-1898, exh. cat., Réunion des Musées Nationaux (Paris, France, 1998), under no. 88, n. 2; pp. 264-265, 271

Peter Cooke, "La Pensée Esthetique", Dossier de l'Art (October 1998), no. 51, repr. in color p. 21

Pierre-Louis Mathieu, Gustave Moreau: Monographie et nouveau catalogue de l'oeuvre achevé, ACR Edition (Paris, France, 1998), no. 80, p. 296, repr.; repr. in color, p. 53

Pierre-Louis Mathieu, Gustave Moreau: L'assembleur de rêves (Courbevoie, 1998), pp. 70, 73, repr.

Pierre Sanchez and Xavier Seydoux, Les estampes de 'La Gazette des beaux-arts' (1859-1933) (Paris, France, 1998), p. 135, no. 1899-13

Geneviève Lacambre, Gustave Moreau: between Epic and Dream, exh. cat., The Art Institute of Chicago (Chicago, IL, 1999), under no. 88, n. 1; repr. in b/w p. 279 as fig. 1

Dr. Peter Cooke, "Gustave Moreau Entre Art Philosophique et Art Pur", Gazette des Beaux-Arts (November 1999), vol. CXXXIV, no. 1570, pp. 225-236, p. 228, repr.

Steven Platzman, Cezanne, the self-portraits, University of California Press (Berkeley, CA, 2001), p. 106, repr.

Christine Peltre, Théodore Chassériau, Gallimard (Paris, 2001), p. 22, repr. as fig. 243; detail repr. on pp. 216-218

Stéphane Guégan and Vincent Pomarède, Théodore Chassériau (1819-1856): The Unknown Romantic; French title: Chassériau: Un autre romantisme, exh. cat., Metropolitan Museum of Art / Yale University Press (New York, NY and London, England, 2002), pp. 48, 50, repr. in b/w with colour detail

Christine Peltre, "Resurrection and Metamorphosis: Chassériau about 1900", exh. cat., Réunion des Musées Nationaux (Paris, France, 2002), pp. 50, 53; detail repr. in color p. 48; repr. in b/w p. 50 as fig. 2

Chikashi Kitazaki, 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 (Tokyo, Japan, 2002), pp. 188-189, cat. #53, color repr.

Stephan Wolohojian, ed., A Private Passion: 19th-Century Paintings and Drawings from the Grenville L. Winthrop Collection, Harvard University, exh. cat., Metropolitan Museum of Art / Yale University Press (New York, NY, 2003), no. 92, pp. 232-235, repr. in color

Peter Cooke, Gustave Moreau et les arts jumeaux: Peinture et littérature au dix-neuvième siècle, Peter Lang (New York, NY, 2003), repr. as fig. 5

Stephan Wolohojian, Ingres, Burne-Jones, Whistler, Renoir... La Collection Grenville L. Winthrop, exh. cat., Réunion des Musées Nationaux (Paris, France, 2003), no. 92, pp. 242-245, repr. in color

Peter Cooke, "Gustave Moreau and the Reinvention of History Painting", The Art Bulletin, College Art Association of America (New York, 2008), Volume XC, Number 3, pp. 401, 404-405, 409; repr. in b/w on p. 401.
Exhibition History: Annual Exhibition, 1865, Palais des Champs-Élysées, Paris, 05/01/1865 - 06/20/1865, no. 1540

Exposition Universelle, 1867, Exposition Universelle, 1867, Paris, 04/01/1867 - 12/31/1867, no. 484

Exhibition of the Société des Amis des Arts de Bordeaux, Société des Amis des Arts de Bordeaux, Bordeaux, 03/22/1868 - 12/31/1868, no. 456

Exhibition of the Société des Amis des arts de la Somme, Musée Napoléon, Amiens, 07/11/1868 - 08/16/1868, no. 386

Exposition Universelle internationale, art contemporain 1878-1889, Palais des Beaux-Arts, Paris, Paris, 05/06/1889 - 11/06/1889, no. 531

Exposition Gustave Moreau au profit des oeuvres du travail et des pauvres honteux, Galerie Georges Petit, Paris, 01/01/1906 - 12/31/1906, no. 22

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

Master Paintings from the Fogg Collection, Fogg Art Museum, Cambridge, 04/13/1977 - 08/31/1977

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, no. 53

A Private Passion: 19th-Century Paintings and Drawings from the Grenville L. Winthrop Collection, Harvard University, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, 10/23/2003 - 01/25/2004, no. 92

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

Re-View: S424-426 Western Art from 1560 to 1900, Harvard Art Museum/Arthur M. Sackler Museum, Cambridge, 08/16/2008 - 07/01/2013

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