Gustave Moreau

Gustave Moreau (1826–1898) was a French artist and an important figure in the Symbolist movement. He was a prolific artist who produced over 15,000 paintings, watercolors, and drawings. Moreau painted allegories and traditional biblical and mythological subjects, but he gave them a new freshness and expressed them in a language that is persuasive, lofty, mysterious and new