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Facts

Born April 6, 1826 • Paris • France
Died April 18, 1898 (aged 72) • Paris • France
Notable Works “The Apparition (Dance of Salome)”
Movement / Style Symbolism

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Painting by Gustave Moreau showing a woman in ornate robes holding the severed head of Orpheus and his lyre, standing barefoot in a rocky, dreamlike landscape.
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Odilon Redon
Odilon Redon
French painter
Edgar Degas
Edgar Degas
French artist
Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec: At the Moulin Rouge
Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec
French artist
Self-portrait by Pierre-Auguste Renoir
Pierre-Auguste Renoir
French painter
Bonnard, Pierre: Place Clichy
Pierre Bonnard
French artist
Self-portrait by Jean-Baptiste-Siméon Chardin, pastel, 1775; in the Louvre, Paris.
Jean-Baptiste-Siméon Chardin
French painter
Vuillard, Édouard: Under the Trees
Édouard Vuillard
French artist
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John Russell
English artist, astronomer, and scholar
François Boucher: Cupid a Captive
François Boucher
French artist
Portrait of Marguerite de Valois, chalk drawing by François Clouet, c. 1559; in the Musée Condé, Chantilly, France. 30.1 × 21.1 cm.
François Clouet
French painter
Self-portrait painting by Paul Gauguin showing the artist with a mustache, yellow halo, and stylized plants against a vivid orange background with green and red fruit.
Paul Gauguin
French painter
Joris-Karl Huysmans, detail of an oil painting by Jean-Louis Forain.
Joris-Karl Huysmans
French author
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Maurice Denis
French artist
The Poor Fisherman, oil on canvas by Pierre Puvis de Chavannes, 1881; in the Louvre, Paris.
Pierre Puvis de Chavannes
French painter
Hans Holbein the Younger: The Ambassadors
Hans Holbein the Younger
German painter
Mary Cassatt
Mary Cassatt
American painter
The Annunciation to the Shepherds, oil on canvas by Jacopo Bassano, probably 1555/1560; in the Samuel H. Kress Collection, National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C. 106.1 × 82.6 cm.
Jacopo Bassano
Italian painter
Mengs, Anton Raphael: Portrait of Isabel Parreño y Arce, Marquesa de Llano
Anton Raphael Mengs
Bohemian painter
Barocci, Federico: Quintilia Fischieri
Federico Barocci
Italian painter
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Henrietta Johnston
American artist

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