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Henri Matisse
French artist Henri Matisse, photograph by Alvin Langdon Coburn, 1913.
Gustave Moreau was a highly influential teacher at the École des Beaux-Arts who played a significant role in the development of Henri Matisse and other artists associated with the Fauve movement.1
Rather than imposing his own personal style on his students, Moreau was a tolerant instructor who encouraged Matisse to cultivate his own artistic personality. He also urged his pupils to study and learn from the masterworks housed in the Louvre. Matisse studied in Moreau’s atelier from 1892 until 1899, when he was forced to leave following Moreau’s death and the subsequent appointment of a more intolerant professor.2