Musée Gustave Moreau

The Gustave-Moreau museum is a national museum at 14 rue de La Rochefoucauld in Paris, in the former studio of the Symbolist painter Gustave Moreau, bequeathed by the artist to the French State in 1897 so that his work be preserved and presented there. The museum keeps a total of about 20,000 works. Most of his studio holdings are displayed there, that is nearly 850 of his paintings or cartoons, 350 of his watercolours, more than 13,000 drawings and tracings, 15 wax sculptures as well as a few works by other artists: a Portrait of Gustave Moreau by Edgar Degas, another by Gustave Ricard, a Portrait of Pauline Moreau – the painter's mother – by Jules-Élie Delaunay, a Still Life by the Flemish painter Jan Fyt. After identical restoration, the painter's apartment opened to the public in 1991, and his reception study, restored in 2003, can also be visited.

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