Gustave Moreau · 1874-76
The Apparition (L'Apparition)
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Salome in a glittering gown of jewels and veils points at the severed head of John the Baptist, which floats in a blazing halo before an arched Alhambra-style hall; Herod, Herodias, a lutenist and the executioner with his sword look on. Watercolour, Musee d'Orsay, Paris.
Up to 16 × 23.6 in · portrait
Size
Larger sizes are unavailable for this painting because the source scan's resolution wouldn't print at gallery quality.
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Archival cotton canvas stretched over a wooden frame. Ready to hang as-is. No external frame.
Scale next to a 5'10" person
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Materials & quality
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Giclée-printed on archival cotton canvas with fade-resistant pigment inks, hand-stretched over wooden bars. Gallery-wrapped — ready to hang with no extra frame needed.
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Hand-finished solid wood floater frame in five finishes. The canvas sits inside with a clean shadow gap — the way galleries hang contemporary canvas.
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Premium archival paper — 200 gsm soft matte or 230 gsm vibrant glossy. Ships flat or rolled, ready for your own frame.
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Printed from the highest-resolution museum and archive scans available. Each painting's maximum size is capped at what its source scan can support at gallery quality.
The story of The Apparition (L'Apparition)
The Apparition is a watercolour Moreau painted between 1874 and 1876. It caused a sensation when it was shown at the Paris Salon of 1876, where the Belgian dealer Leon Gauchez bought it. In 1877 Gauchez sent it to the Grosvenor Gallery in London, where it hung in the main East Gallery with the oil paintings. It is now in the Musee d'Orsay and is regarded as a key work of Symbolism.
Adapted from Wikipedia, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.
Gustave Moreau
Gustave Moreau was a French artist and an important figure in the Symbolist movement. Jean Cassou called him "the Symbolist painter par excellence". He was an influential forerunner of symbolism in the visual arts in the 1860s, and at the height of the symbolist movement in the 1890s, he was among the most significant painters. Art historian Robert Delevoy wrote that Moreau "brought symbolist polyvalence to its highest point in Jupiter and Semele." He was a prolific artist who produced over 15,000 paintings, watercolors, and drawings. Moreau painted allegories and traditional biblical and mythological subjects favored by the fine art academies. J. K. Huysmans wrote, "Gustave Moreau has given new freshness to dreary old subjects by a talent both subtle and ample: he has taken myths worn out by the repetitions of centuries and expressed them in a language that is persuasive and lofty, mysterious and new." The female characters from the Bible and mythology that he so frequently depicted came to be regarded by many as the archetypical symbolist woman. His art fell from favor and received little attention in the early 20th century but, beginning in the 1960s and 70s, he has come to be considered among the most paramount of symbolist painters.
All Gustave Moreau prints →Biography adapted from Wikipedia, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.
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