Random Inspiration: Maurice Leloir (1853 – 1940)

by Matthew Innis |

Manon Lascaut (1892, oil), Dahesh MuseumMaurice Leloir (French, 1853 – 1940)French artist, Maurice Leloir, famous for illustrating the Musketeer stories of Alexandre Dumas, created this romantic piece in 1892.  It represents the penultimate scene in the book L’Histoire du Chevalier des Grieux et de Manon Lescaut by Antoine François Prévost (the Abbé Prévost), in which…

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