The Lacemaker the two become lovers and Béatrice moves into his room in Paris. Though he introduces her to his well-off parents and his intellectual friends, she is unable to mix in their worlds. Her deep reserve begins to annoy him and they split up. Losing interest in life, she ends up in a mental hospital. Full of remorse, François visits her but she wants nothing: she has found a quiet place that suits her inwardness. In her silent anonymity, she is like the unknown girls in paintings such as Vermeer's "The Lacemaker". The original soundtrack music composed by Pierre Jansen for
The Woman with a Gambling Mania A solid example of romanticism, Géricault's portrait of a mental asylum patient attempts to show a specific form of insanity through facial expression. This painting was acquired by the Louvre in 1938. The Woman with a Gambling Mania The Woman with Gambling Mania is an 1822 painting by Théodore Géricault. It is a member of a series of ten portraits of people with specific manias done by Géricault between 1820 and 1824, including "Portrait of a Kleptomaniac" and "Insane Woman". Following the controversy surrounding his "The Raft of the Medusa", Géricault fell into a depression. In return for help by