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Painting by Gustave Moreau

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The Unicorns

Artist	Gustave Moreau
Year	1880s
Medium	oil on canvas
Dimensions	115 cm × 90 cm (45 in × 35 in)
Location	Musée national Gustave Moreau, Paris

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

It is freely inspired by The Lady and the Unicorn tapestries in the musée de Cluny 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".

References

(in French) "Base Joconde entry".
^ (in French) "Les Licornes".

v t e Gustave Moreau
Paintings	Oedipus and the Sphinx (1864) Scottish Horseman (1870s) Tattooed Salome (begun 1874, never completed) The Apparition (1874–1876; Musée d'Orsay, Musée national Gustave Moreau) Salome Dancing before Herod (1876) The Unicorns (1880s) Les Chimères (1884) The Parca and the Angel of Death (1890) Dead Poet Carried by a Centaur (c. 1890) The Mystic Flower (c. 1890) Jupiter and Semele (1894–1895)
Museums	Musée national Gustave Moreau
Related	Symbolism

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