Aesthetically elevating hedonism, depravity, self-indulgence, and a dangerous femme fatale kind of sensuality, the painting “Salome Dancing before Herod” by Gustave Moreau is celebrated as one of the Hammer Museum's better known paintings and one of Moreau's finest works.
A major figure in French Symbolist painting, Moreau was born on April 6, 1826, in Paris, France, at 6 Rue des Saints-Peres.