The Gustave Moreau museum opened its doors in 1903 located in the Opera Garnier neighbourhood. As it name says, we can find in it more than six thousand pieces of one of the most important painters of France.
Before he died Gustave Moreau had already decided to turn his home into a museum where he could show all his masterpieces. The place was made bigger and finally, after his dead, the house was ready to be visited by thousands of people wishing to discover his fabulous pieces.
This is one of the many museums you should visit.
It is open every day from 10:00hs to 12:45hs. In the afternoon from 14:00 to 17:15hs.

museo obra gustave moreau

Address: 14, rue de la Rochefoucauld, 75009 París
Tel: +(33) 01 48 74 38 50
Bus: Lines 26, 32, 43, 68, 81
Metro: Trinité d'Estienne d'Orves
RER: Auber de la linea A y Saint-Lazare de la linea E

Gustave Moreau biography

Gustave Moreau was born in Paris the 6th of April of 1826.
In the year 1838 he began to study at the College Rollin boarding school. Sooner, he quit due to axial reasons and he continued his studies at a private institute.
In 1844 he finished school and he began working as a pupil in the workshop of the painter François-Edouard Picot. In 1847 he presented himself at the Ecole des Beaux Arts and he successfully passed the entrance exam. He wanted to accomplish the Rome Award but he couldn’t do it and after two failures he decided to abandon the academy.
In 1852 he moved his workshop to the third floor of a house that his parents rented for him, that is nowadays the museum.

In 1855 he showed his piece Los atenienses en el laberinto del Minotauro in the Universal Exposition of Paris.
In 1859 he began a love relationship with Alexandrine Dureux. The next few years were not that good for the artist, mainly due to his mother death in 1884 and Alexandrine Dureux in 1890. When his bestfriend Elie Delaunay died in 1891, he succeeded him as a teacher at the Ecole des Beaux Arts. He continued being a teacher till he died. He was a teacher of now many famous artists like Henri Matisse, Albert Marquet and Georges Rouault.
He died the 18th of April of 1898 when he was 72 years old. His rests are in the Monmartre cemetery.