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Portrait of Jean Moréas on His Deathbed

Frédéric-Auguste CAZALS

1865 - 1941

Portrait of Jean Moréas on His Deathbed

1910?
Lead pencil and blue coloured pencil on tracing paper laid on vellum paper
222 × 141 mm
Annotated in pen and brown ink [Inscription for Jean Moréas’s cinerary urn // O thou, blood of Sophocles and Leonidas, // Hast thou suffered by our feat, my Jean, brother of men! // Immortal ashes, in the urn whither we go // Sleep ; ’tis my {heart?}! sleep, son, a soldier’s sleep // Maurice…?](translated)

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