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Gustave Moreau

Jeune fille de Thrace portant la tête d'Orphée (Thracian Girl Carrying the Head of Orpheus)

c. 1865

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  • Artist Formerly attributed to Gustave Moreau (French, 1826–1898)
  • Title Jeune fille de Thrace portant la tête d'Orphée (Thracian Girl Carrying the Head of Orpheus)
  • Date c. 1865
  • Medium Oil on canvas
  • Dimensions unframed | 39 1/2 x 25 1/2 in.
  • Credit line University purchase, Parsons Fund, 1965
  • Object number WU 4261

Battle of Ideal vs. Real: The Figure in Nineteenth-Century Art
Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum, Washington University in St. Louis, 05/06/2016 - 07/31/2016

Picturing Narrative: Greek Mythology in the Visual Arts
Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum, Washington University in St. Louis, 09/12/2014 - 01/04/2015

Gustave Moreau
Kunsthaus Zürich, 03/07/1986 - 05/27/1986

Diversity in the Salon: Late 19th-Century French Academic Art
Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum, Washington University in St. Louis, 06/02/1985 - 08/11/1985

In Quest of Excellence: Civic Pride, Patronage, Connoisseurship
Pérez Art Museum Miami (Miami, Florida), 01/14/1984 - 04/22/1984

Sarah Bernhardt and Her Times
Wildenstein and Co. (New York, New York), 11/13/1984 - 12/28/1984

Nature and the Figure
Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum, Washington University in St. Louis, 01/09/1983 - 03/06/1983

Parsons Collection
Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum, Washington University in St. Louis, 05/15/1983 - 08/21/1983

The Earthly Chimera: The Fear of Woman in 19th Century Art
Smart Museum of Art, The University of Chicago, 05/14/1981 - 06/21/1981

Charles Parsons: Portrait of a St. Louis Collector
Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum, Washington University in St. Louis, 12/12/1976 - 01/30/1977

The Work of Gustave Moreau
Legion of Honor, Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco (San Franscisco, California), 09/01/1974 - 11/01/1974
Los Angeles County Museum of Art, 07/01/1974 - 08/01/1974

Salon de Resserre: Selections of European and American Art of the Nineteenth Century from the Washington University Collections
Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum, Washington University in St. Louis, 02/01/1970 - 03/06/1970

Gustave Moreau, 1826–1898, and Adolphe Monticelli, 1824–1886: A Museum Course Exhibition
Busch-Reisinger Museum, Harvard Art Museums, 05/13/1960 - 06/08/1960

Bosch, Goya, et le Fantastique
Musée des Beaux-Arts de Bordeaux (Bordeaux, France), 05/20/1957 - 07/31/1957

Visionaries and Dreamers
Corcoran Gallery of Art, 04/07/1956 - 05/27/1956

1965
Jacques Seligmann & Co., New York

Inscription Recto, lower left:

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