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A Chimera in Chicago

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23/12/24 - Acquisition - Chigago, Art Institute -


This poem by Jean Lorrain [1]. was directly inspired by Gustave Moreau’s 1867 masterpiece The Chimera, which is now in the Harvard Museum (ill. 1). The painting was reproduced in enamel by Frédéric de Courcy in an oval format, a work exhibited this year by Oscar Graf at Tefaf (see article which has joined the collections of the Art Institute of Chicago (ill. 2).


1. Gustave Moreau (1826-1898)
The Chimera, 1867
Oil on panel - 33 x 27.3 cm
Cambridge, Harvard Art Museum
Photo: Harvard Art Museum
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Frédéric Charlot de Courcy - whose father was his namesake, Frédéric de Courcy, author of vaudevilles - trained in the studio of François-Édouard Picot, as did Gustave Moreau, who became his…

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