This outrageously sexy shot of Elvis sleeping with abandon in Love Me Tender – a movie where he plays a guy who is the opposite of sexy throughout, if that’s even possible (and it is) – calls to mind (if you’re me, that is) Jacques-Louis David’s painting of Jean-Paul Marat, stabbed in his bathtub by the assassin Charlotte Corday.
Tell me you don’t see it.
Just me? I know I know. I don’t care.
Except Marat is not sexy! But he’s as helpless as sleeping Elvis.
Somehow I’m reminded of The Death of Chatterton by Henry Wallis.
Chatterton another excellent comparison!