The Toilette by Gustave Moreau Postcard

The Toilette by French master Gustave Moreau is an intricately detailed watercolor painting depicting a tall, standing female figure in exotic Eastern robes, veils and jewels in a sumptuous, Eastern interior. Gustave Moreau exhibited with great success in the late 19th century French Salon, and later became a professor at the Ecole des Beaux-Arts, Paris. His noteworthy students included the Modernist Fauve painters Henri Matisse, Albert Marquet, and Georges Rouault. Moreau’s work has much in common with classical 19th century French painters such as Ingres and Delacroix, but he is usually considered part of the French Symbolist movement for his literary, archaic classical style and religious and mythological subject matter.