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Moreau's figures are ambiguous; it is hardly possible to distinguish at the first glance which of two lovers is the man, which the woman; all his characters are linked by subtle bonds of relationship... lovers look as though they were related, brothers as though they were lovers, men have the faces of virgins, virgins the faces of youths; the symbols of Good and Evil are entwined and equivocally confused.
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Gustave Moreau Works Online
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Original works by Gustave Moreau available for purchase at art galleries worldwide
Paintings in Museums and Public Art Galleries Worldwide:
 Art Institute of Chicago NEW!
Gustave Moreau at the Detroit Institute of Arts, Michigan
Mlle. Richard as Glycere, a Courtesan in SAPHO, ca.1884
J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles
Diomedes Devoured by Horses, 1851
Dejanira (Autumn), 1872
Louvre Museum Graphic Art Database, Paris (in French) 
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City NEW! 
Musée d'Orsay, Paris
Musée National Gustave Moreau, Paris
National Gallery, London, UK
Saint George and the Dragon
National Gallery of Art, Washington D.C. NEW!
Most but not all artists in the NGA database have works online
National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa 
Hammer Museum, California
Salome Dancing before Herod, 1876
Harvard University Art Museums, Massachusetts
Harvard have works in their collections, but unfortunately you have to type in the search yourself
Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum, St. Louis, Missouri
Musée des Beaux-Arts de Rouen, France (in French)
Diomède dévoré par ses chevaux
Museum of Fine Arts, Gifu, Japan
National Museum of Western Art, Tokyo
2 works online
Saint Louis Art Museum, Missouri
The Martyred Saint Sebastian, 1869
State Museums of Berlin
The Death of Sappho, ca.1872
Statens Museum for Kunst (National Gallery of Denmark), Copenhagen
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Thyssen-Bornemisza Museum, Madrid NEW!
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Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, Richmond
Narcissus, ca.1890
National Art Databases and Museum Inventories:
Joconde Database of French Museum Collections (in French)
Almost 7000 artworks shown. Wow! Click on "Groupe suivant" to page forward, or "Affiner la recherche" to narrow down the search results
UK National Inventory of Continental European Paintings (NICE)
Art Market:
(e.g. records of past sales at auction; sites providing examples of the artist's signature)
Christie's Past Sale Archive
(database goes as far back as 1991; images go about as far back as 1999)
Sotheby's Sold Lot Archive
(database goes as far back as 1998; images where permitted by copyright go about as far back as 2001)
Pictures from Image Archives:
Gustave Moreau at The Art Renewal Center
Gustave Moreau at The Artchive
Gustave Moreau at The Athenaeum 
110 works online by Moreau
Gustave Moreau in the Web Gallery of Art
Gustave Moreau in the WebMuseum
Wikimedia Commons Image Database
World Visit Guide (formerly Insecula)
Gustave Moreau at ArtMagick
Bildindex der Kunst und Architektur (in German)
(a welcome screen is displayed for a couple of seconds before the search results appear)
Boston College Fine Arts Department
California State University WorldImages Database
Gustave Moreau at CGFA
Ciudad de la Pintura (in Spanish)
El Poder de la Palabra (The Power of the Word) (in Spanish)
New York Public Library Digital Gallery
RKD Netherlands Imagebase NEW!
Eclectic database of images that range from old black-and-white photos to superb, zoomable reproductions
Additional Image Search Tools:
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Miscellaneous Sites:
FBI Art Theft Program
L 'Enlevement de Ganymede
Jacques-Edouard Berger Foundation
Museo Virtual del Surrealismo
Salome
Myth Man - Greek Mythology Today
The Torture of Prometheus, 1868
Peter Nahum At The Leicester Galleries, London, UK
Archive of past displayed works which are "sold" or "not for sale"
The Modernist Journals Project
(Click "Retrieve Images" to see artworks)
Articles and Reference Sites:
Encyclopedia Britannica complete article on Gustave Moreau 
Note: The full version of the article is available only if you follow this link. If you bookmark the article and return later, or if you navigate directly to the Britannica website, you will see a 100-word preview only. Troubleshooting
RKD Netherlands Institute for Art History
Union List of Artist Names (Getty Museum)
Reference sheet with basic information about the artist and pointers to other references.
Wikipedia, the "Open Content" Encyclopedia
Biographical info
La Tribune de l'Art (in French)
Nineteenth-Century Art Worldwide
Gustave Moreau's "Archeological Allegory"
Nineteenth-Century Art Worldwide
Interrogating Gustave Moreau's Sphinx: Myth as Artistic Metaphor in the 1864 Salon
The New York Observer
"The Sublime Matisse Loved Ridiculous Gustave Moreau", article by Hilton Kramer
"Look Inside" and "Search Inside" Books at Amazon
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Discoveries: Gustave Moreau
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Gustave Moreau: L'Assembleur De Reves 1826-1898
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