3760 x 2854 px | 31,8 x 24,2 cm | 12,5 x 9,5 inches | 300dpi
Data acquisizione:
19 novembre 2013
Altre informazioni:
Marriage à-la-mode is a series of six pictures painted by William Hogarth between 1743 and 1745 depicting a pointed skewering of upper class 18th century society. This moralistic warning shows the disastrous results of an ill-considered marriage for money and satirises patronage and aesthetics. This is regarded by many as his finest project, certainly the best example of his serially-planned story cycles.[citation needed] The pictures are exhibited in the National Gallery, London. This series of paintings was not received as well as his other moral tales, A Harlot's Progress (1732) and A Rake's Progress (1735), and when they were finally sold in 1751, it would be for a much lower sum than the artist had hoped for.[
