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Gustave Moreau’s ‘Salome’: the poetics and politics of history painting
08/2007 | 1253 | 149
Pages: 528-536
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Author:
Cooke, Peter (Cooke, Peter)
Subjects
artists:
Moreau, Gustave
dates:
1870-1879
places:
Paris / France
print:
Moreau, Gustave
subjects:
History paintings / French painting / Salome / Orientalism / Salons (art exhibitions)
subjects:
Symbolism (artistic concept)
subjects:
Critical Reception
subjects:
Exposition Universelle de Paris (1878)
Illustrations
Attributed works:
1. Salome, by Gustave Moreau. 1876. Panel, 144 by 103.5 cm. (UCLA at the Armand Hammer Museum of Art and Cultural Center, Los Angeles).
Attributed works:
10. Messalina, by Gustave Moreau. 1874. Canvas, 242 by 137 cm. (Musée Gustave Moreau, Paris).
Attributed works:
2. Salome, by Henri Regnault. 1870. Canvas, 160 by 102.9 cm. (Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York).
Attributed works:
3. Stratonice, by J.-A.-D. Ingres. 1840. Canvas, 57 by 98 cm. (Musée Condé, Chantilly).
Attributed works:
4. Execution without judgment under the Moorish kings of Granada, by Henri Regnault. 1870. Canvas, 302 by 106 cm. (Musée d’Orsay, Paris).
Attributed works:
5. The oath of the Horatii between the hands of their father, by Jacques-Louis David. 1785. Canvas, 329.9 by 424.8 cm. (Musée du Louvre, Paris).
Attributed works:
6. The Virgin and Child enthroned with Sts Francis, John the Baptist, Job, Sebastian, Dominic and Louis of Toulouse (the S. Giobbe altarpiece), by Giovanni Bellini. c.1490. 471 by 258 cm. (Gallerie dell’Accademia, Venice).
Attributed works:
7. The Virgin and Child enthroned with Sts Peter, Catherine, Lucy and (?) Jerome (the S. Zaccaria altarpiece), by Giovanni Bellini. 1505. Oil on panel transferred to canvas, 500 by 235 cm. (S. Zaccaria, Venice).
Attributed works:
8. Sheet of studies for Salome, by Gustave Moreau. c.1876. Pencil on paper, 35.5 by 26.8 cm. (Musée Gustave Moreau, Paris).
Attributed works:
9. Pope Formosus and Stephen VII, by Jean-Paul Laurens. 1872. Canvas, 100 by 152 cm. (Musée des Beaux-Arts, Nantes).