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The Unicorns (painting)

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The Unicorns
ArtistGustave Moreau
Year1880s
Mediumoil on canvas
Dimensions115 cm × 90 cm (45 in × 35 in)
LocationMusée national Gustave Moreau, Paris

The Unicorns is an 1880s oil-on-canvas painting by Gustave Moreau, now in the Musée national Gustave Moreau.[1]

It is freely inspired by The Lady and the Unicorn tapestries in the musée de Cluny[2] Moreau spoke of the painting and its subject as "an enchanted island with a gathering of women, solely of women giving the most precious pretext for all patterns of plastic art".[2]

References

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  1. ^ (in French) "Base Joconde entry".
  2. ^ a b (in French) "Les Licornes".