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The Unicorns (painting)
Painting by Gustave Moreau / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The Unicorns is an 1880s oil-on-canvas painting by Gustave Moreau, now in the Musée national Gustave Moreau.[1]
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Artist | Gustave Moreau |
Year | 1880s |
Medium | oil on canvas |
Dimensions | 115 cm × 90 cm (45 in × 35 in) |
Location | Musée national Gustave Moreau, Paris |
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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]