Scottish Horseman
Scottish Horseman, Pony or Horseman is an 1870s oil on canvas painting by Gustave Moreau, enlarging an earlier painting also entitled Horseman - both works are now in the Musée Gustave Moreau.
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The artist's last Romantic work, it was strongly inspired by Eugène Delacroix (especially his Tam O'Shanter and the importance it assigns to the sky, a painting inspired by Robert Burns' ballad Tam O'Shanter).[1][2][3] Moreau knew Delacroix and went to his studio after setbacks at the Paris Salons - Tam O'Shanter was still there in 1849 and it may have been there where Moreau saw it.[4][5] Moreau also painted Galloping Pony (1865-1880), a wax sculpture which he may have used as a model for this painting.[6]
Context
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Moreau often painted and drew horses during his Romantic period and was probably encouraged to do so by Pierre-Joseph Dedreux-Dorcy, whose favourable opinion had decided the young painter's career.[7][8]
References
- (in French) Musée Cernuschi. et Musée de la Compagnie des Indes (Lorient, France), L'Inde de Gustave Moreau : Musée Cernuschi, Paris, 15 février-17 mai 1997, Musée de la compagnie des Indes, Lorient, 17 juin-15 septembre 1997., Paris, Musées de la ville de Paris, 1997, 256 p. (ISBN 2-87900-302-4 et 978-2-87900-302-3, OCLC 37095515, SUDOC 004173767)
- (in French) Geneviève Lacambre, Gustave Moreau : Maître Sorcier, Paris, Gallimard et Réunion des musées nationaux, 1997, 128 p. (ISBN 2-07-053388-3, SUDOC 004107926)
- (in French) Pierre-Louis Mathieu and Geneviève Lacambre, Le Musée Gustave Moreau, Paris, Réunion des musées nationaux, 1997, 127 p. (ISBN 2-7118-3479-4), p. 82
- (in French) Pierre-Louis Mathieu, Gustave Moreau : L'assembleur de rêves, Courbevoie, ACR Édition, 1998, 192 p. (ISBN 2-86770-115-5), p. 25
- (in French) Pierre-Louis Mathieu, Gustave Moreau, Paris, Flammarion, 1994 (ISBN 2-08-011743-2), p. 30
- (in French) Geneviève Lacambre, Douglas W. Druick, Larry J. Feinberg and Susan Stein (translated from English), Gustave Moreau 1826-1898, Tours, Réunion des musées nationaux, 1998, 292 p. (ISBN 2-7118-3577-4), p. 115
- (in French) Pierre-Louis Mathieu, Gustave Moreau : L'assembleur de rêves, Courbevoie, ACR Édition, 1998, 192 p. (ISBN 2-86770-115-5), p. 16
- (in French) Pierre-Louis Mathieu, Gustave Moreau, Paris, Flammarion, 1994 (ISBN 2-08-011743-2, p.30