didoofcarthage:

Luna by Edward Burne-Jones and Morris & Co.

English, 1878

stained glass

private collection x 

didoofcarthage:

Night, or Star of Heaven by Edward Robert Hughes

English, c. 1900

watercolor, pencil, bodycolor, and gold

private collection

didoofcarthage:

Detail from Orpheus by Gustave Moreau

French, 1865

oil on panel

Musée d’Orsay

didoofcarthage:

Sphinx in a Grotto (Poet, King, and Warrior) by Gustave Moreau

watercolor and gouache on paper

Metropolitan Museum of Art

didoofcarthage:

Detail from Le Triomphe de Bacchus by Gustave Moreau

French, c. 1875-1876

oil on panel

private collection

didoofcarthage:

Hercules and the Lernaean Hydra by Gustave Moreau

French, 1875/1876

oil on canvas

Art Institute of Chicago

didoofcarthage:

Jupiter et les Tonnerres by Gustave Moreau

French, 19th century

pencil and grey wash

private collection

didoofcarthage:

Première Danseuse Mademoiselle Subra, Ballet de Sapho by Gustave Moreau

French, 19th century

pencil on paper

private collection

didoofcarthage:

Pittacus the Tyrant in War Costume by Gustave Moreau, from the opera Sapho by Charles Gounod

French, 1883

graphite with watercolor on wove paper

National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.

didoofcarthage:

Costume design by Gustave Moreau for Phaon in Charles Gounod’s opera Sapho

French, 19th century

pencil on paper

private collection

didoofcarthage:

Costume design by Gustave Moreau for Phaon in Charles Gounod’s opera Sapho  

French, 19th century

pencil, brown wash, and gouache heightened with gold on paper

private collection

didoofcarthage:

Sapho, or Jeune Femme au Vase by Gustave Moreau

French, 19th century

graphite, watercolor, and gouache 

private collection