Musée national Gustave Moreau

Gustave Moreau’s world of Symbolism is preserved here in the very rooms where he lived and worked. The Musée national Gustave Moreau was built on the site of his dwelling: in 1895 he chose to transform the house into a studio and a museum for his own work, while keeping the family apartment on the first floor. The museum opened on 14 January 1903, turning a private residence into a public collection. Inside, the house’s three levels organize Moreau’s art as both archive and performance space: a large studio-room sits on the second floor, while the third floor holds two larger rooms. Today the collection includes around 1,200 paintings—many sketches or unfinished—and about 4,830 drawings stored in cabinets with pivoting shutters, with nearly 5,000 drawings in total. Among the works displayed are *The Apparition* (c. 1875), *Chimera* (1884), *Jupiter and Semele* (1895), and *The Return of the Argonauts* (1891–97). …

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