Gustave Moreau, l'"ouvrier assembleur de rêves" au Museum National d'Histoire naturelle

• Autores: Maud Haon Maatouk
• Localización: Revue de l'art, ISSN 0035-1326, Nº. 197, 2017, págs. 49-58
• Idioma: francés
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  • Gustave Moreau, "Dream Assembler" at the Museum National d'Histoire Naturelle.

    Painter of "interior feeling", Gustave Moreau and his art do not seem to have any resemblance to the world of the real or to its study. Yet, while his works are explicity tied to literary and mythological works, Gustave Moreau knew all throughout his carrer how to develop his painting using various sources of inspiration, particularly the natural sciences. As a 19th century artist-erudite, Moreau shared with his contemporaries a fascination for the research and advances in the domain of the sciences. Gustave Moreau's interest is confirmed, among other things, by his numerous visits to the Museum National d'Histoire Naturelle. Effectively, he frequently visited the Museum, especially during the year of 1881. This was a very prolific period for the graphic production of this artist, since it coincides with the creation of the illustrations for the "Fables" of Jean de La Fontaine. This work, which occupied the artist from 1879 to 1883, is the fruit of a commission from the Marseilles collector Antoni Roux (1833-1914). According to Gustave Moreau, it was essential to study the different species of animals after nature. In this article, we wish to study the drawings executed during this year. We thus hope to study the artist's method of analysis during his exploration and the phenomenon of re-appropriation of scientific thought at the very heart of the purely plastic production of this artist. We consider that this analysis will bring to light an elemental aspect of Gustave Moreau's creation.