Galatea | Harvard Art Museums

Identification and Creation

Object Number: 1943.267
People: Gustave Moreau, French (Paris 1826 - 1898 Paris)
Title: Galatea
Classification: Drawings
Work Type: drawing
Date: 1896
Culture: French
Persistent Link: https://hvrd.art/o/298200

Physical Descriptions

Medium: Gouache on wove paper
Dimensions: actual: 39.5 x 25.7 cm (15 9/16 x 10 1/8 in.)

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line

Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Bequest of Grenville L. Winthrop

Accession Year

1943

Object Number

1943.267

Division

European and American Art

Contact

am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu

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Publication History

Georges Rouault, Gustav Moreau, L'Art et les Artistes (April 1926), vol. 11-12, pp. 219-249, p. 235, repr.
Hans H. Hofstätter, Gustave Moreau: Leben und Werk, DuMont Buchverlag (Cologne, 1978), pp. 87-89 + 180, repr. p. 89
Pierre-Louis Mathieu, Gustave Moreau: Monographie et nouveau catalogue de l'oeuvre achevé, ACR Édition (Paris, France, 1998), no. 459, repr., also repr. p. 188 (color)

Exhibition History

The Age of Romanticism, Busch-Reisinger Museum, Cambridge, 03/15/1986 - 05/18/1986
Flowers of Evil: Symbolist Drawings, 1870–1910, Harvard Art Museums, Cambridge, 05/21/2016 - 08/14/2016

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