Dead Poet Carried by a Centaur

Dead Poet Carried by a Centaur is a c. 1890 watercolour by Gustave Moreau, produced shortly after the death of his companion Alexandrine Dureux and representing a reflection on the duality of man and the fate reserved for artists. It is now in the Musée Gustave Moreau, in Paris.

Dead Poet Carried by a Centaur (c. 1890) by Gustave Moreau


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