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Anguish is an 1878 oil painting by the artist August Friedrich Schenck
The contrast between fading daylight and wintry silence lends the scene a gentle melancholy
The forms are simplified and abstracted
The dramatic lighting and staged symbolism reflect Mortensen’s distinctive pictorial style
The Burial of Manon Lescaut | Pascal Dagnan-Bouveret | 1878 14th Century Anguish is an 1878 oilThe 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
