The Burial of Manon Lescaut | Pascal Dagnan-Bouveret | 1878 Size:A4 Landscape A luminous triangle

A luminous triangle

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

Symbolist vision of parting and inner fracture

while a lone carriage moves through the hush

The Burial of Manon Lescaut | Pascal Dagnan-Bouveret | 1878 Size:A4 Landscape A luminous triangleThis 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