Gustave Moreau

Saint Cecilia



Gustave Moreau - Saint Cecilia



Gustave Moreau
Saint Cecilia
c. 1890–95
33.8 x 16.2 cm
Gouache and watercolor over graphite on wove paper mounted to wood panel
Signed in pen and red ink at lower left: Gustave Moreau
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
Gift of Mrs. Charles Wrightsman, 2004


Literature

Catalogues raisonnés
Pierre-Louis Mathieu, Gustave Moreau, sa vie, son Oeuvre, Paris, 1976, nr. 418

Collection catalogues
Everett Fahy (ed.), The Wrightsman pictures, New York; New Haven, 2005, nr. 124


Provenance

M. Charles Viguier
his sale, Galerie Georges Petit, Paris, 4 May 1906, nr. 92
Francis Neilson, 1867-1961
with Hazlitt, Gooden & Fox, London, 1989, sold to Wrightsman
Mrs. Charles Wrightsman, 1989-2004
her gift in 2004 to the Metropolitan Museum of Art

External links

Metropolitan Museum of Art Accession number 2004.475.3

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c. 1876

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Gustave Moreau Jason
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1865

Gustave Moreau Hesind and the Muse
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Gustave Moreau Orpheus
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