The Burial of Manon Lescaut | Pascal Dagnan-Bouveret | 1878 Size:A4 Landscape the painting suggests that truth

the painting suggests that truth

is a haunting portrayal of a spectral figure visiting a young girl as she sleeps

turbulent skies

now in the Neue Pinakothek in Munich

A luminous triangle

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