The Unicorns | |
Image Upright: | 1.3 |
Artist: | Gustave Moreau |
Year: | 1880s |
Medium: | oil on canvas |
Height Metric: | 115 |
Width Metric: | 90 |
Metric Unit: | cm |
Imperial Unit: | in |
Museum: | Musée national Gustave Moreau |
City: | 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]