19th-Century French School The Vision—based on *Thaïs*, an opera by...
19th-Century French School
The Vision—based on *Thaïs*, an opera by Jules Massenet, 1899. (In the Egyptian desert, the monk Athanaël isolates himself and prays. He falls asleep and sees in a dream the beautiful Thaïs, a courtesan from Alexandria, performing and dancing. Awoken by this sacrilegious vision, which he comments on with the words “Shame! Horror! Eternal darkness!”, he realizes he is haunted by this woman. He decides to return to Alexandria to convert Thaïs and save her, marking the starting point of the opera’s entire plot).
Painting, oil on cardboard, signed “F. Tronoy” and dated in the lower right corner, titled in the lower left corner
24 x 16 cm
painting
19th-Century French School
The Vision—based on *Thaïs*, an opera by Jules Massenet, 1899. (In the Egyptian desert, the monk Athanaël isolates himself and prays. He falls asleep and sees in a dream the beautiful Thaïs, a courtesan from Alexandria, performing and dancing. Awoken by this sacrilegious vision, which he comments on with the words “Shame! Horror! Eternal darkness!”, he realizes he is haunted by this woman. He decides to return to Alexandria to convert Thaïs and save her, marking the starting point of the opera’s entire plot).
Painting, oil on cardboard, signed “F. Tronoy” and dated in the lower right corner, titled in the lower left corner
24 x 16 cm
painting
