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.

André Breton, who was an admirer of Gustave Moreau, owned a copy of this work with the title Centaur and Nymph.

But this poet is anonymous, he is no longer the Orpheus of his painting of 1865 or even Sappho.

[3] It is also a pessimistic reflection on the fate reserved for artists; thus, as Ary Renan:[4] How many perished without funeral at the bottom of the solitary ravines.

Certainly, it happens that a charitable centaur takes in the victim and thinks, in his simple heart, that the man was insane; but oblivion, like still water, buries most of them.Nature is empathetic here since the sun sets at the same time as the poet dies.