Chactas sur la tombe d’Atala
Chactas is so sad for its beautiful and very Christian Atala .
Chactas Meditating on Atala’s Tomb from Francisque Duret was inspired by a Chateaubriand story that depicts the Native American idealism for the 19 th century Europeans . It is a romantic story, kind of a Romeo and Juliet type that mixes new worlds, impossible love and Christian conversion … well … Atala poisons herself in the end and everyone are very sad especially the young man who loved her …
A beautiful bronze at the Museum of Fine Arts in Lyon.
Chactas sur la tombe d’Atala
Chactas sur la tombe d’Atala
Chactas sur la tombe d’Atala
Chactas sur la tombe d’Atala
Chactas sur la tombe d’Atala