Centaur Watching Fish by Arnold Böcklin (1878).
I love love love Böcklin’s mythical pieces, they have this sense of realism, and often even sensitivity.
I thought I recognized the style so I looked it up and I’m so happy because this is the same artist who painted Centaur at the Village Blacksmith.
I love that this was a subject he apparently went to multiple times. Centaurs in perfectly mundane situations.
Don’t worry, he also painted them doing what they do best - beating the shit out of each other.
YESSS
My own favorite paintings of centaurs in mundane situations include “The Centaur Playing with Her Child” by Otto Soltau and “A Centaur Playing with His Son” by Otto Bache
