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The Good Samaritan

c. 1865–70

Gustave Moreau

(French, 1826–1898)
Culture
France
Medium
watercolor, gouache, and graphite on paper
Measurements
Sheet: 21 x 29.4 cm (8 1/4 x 11 9/16 in.)
Credit Line
Leonard C. Hanna Jr. Fund 2024.32
Public Domain
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Location
Not on view
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Did You Know?

Shortly after this watercolor was completed, Gustave Moreau sold it to one of his important patrons and supporters, the collector Edmond Taigny.

Description

Gustave Moreau was distinctive within Symbolism—a movement focused on imagination and interiority—for the fact that he realized relatively traditional subjects often drawn from mythology and religion. Here, Moreau depicts a scene from the Good Samaritan, a story from the Bible’s New Testament about a wounded traveler who is helped by a passerby, despite the ideological and religious differences between the two. Moreau presents the narrative’s most poignant moment, showing the Samaritan giving up his own horse to help his fellow man. The artist used dense, jewellike layers of watercolor to give the scene an emotional and otherworldly tone.

The Good Samaritan

c. 1865–70

Gustave Moreau

(French, 1826–1898)
France

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