Being in Art

 Hello to all the lovely creatures out there! In today's post we will be talking about a little different thematic in the art world, a painting inspired by literature: "The burial of Manon Lescaut" by Pascal Dagnan-Bouveret! The burial of Manon Lescaut - Pascal Dagnan-Bouveret (circa 1878) Dagnan-Bouveret's painting Manon Lescaut was exhibited at the 1878 Salon and was taken from Abbe Prevost's 1730's novel and was the artist's first public success, earning him a third-class medal.  Here Manon's distraught lover, Des Gourieux, is digging his beloved's grave and has resolved to follow her in death. Manon's tragic demise followed a duel between the nephew of the governor of Louisiana and Des Gourieux who, wounded in his arm (one can see some blood has seeped from uhder the crude bandage) and believing he had killed his opponent, hastened to Manon so they could escape New Orleans together. The young couple fled into what the novel's author, Ab...