the painting suggests that truth
The artist captures the muscular form and expression of agony on Milo’s face
while a lone carriage moves through the hush
The scene is set against a backdrop of a star-studded dark sky with clouds
Symbolist vision of parting and inner fracture
The Burial of Manon Lescaut | Pascal Dagnan-Bouveret | 1878 Size:A4 Landscape the painting suggests that truthThis painting draws from Abb Prvosts tragic novel Manon Lescaut (1731). After a turbulent life of passion, deception, and exile, Manon and her devoted lover, the Chevalier des Grieux, are cast out into the wilderness of Louisiana. There, far from civilisation, Manon succumbs to illness and exhaustion. With no one to help him, des Grieux is forced to dig her grave alone in the unforgiving sand, using his bare hands. This momentintimate, raw, and