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The Toilet Scene: Marriage à la Mode, Plate 4
1745
30.982
Not currently on view
Artwork Details
13-7/8 x 17-5/8 in. (image) 17 x 21-1/8 in. (sheet)
Mark DescriptionInscribed: Engraved by S. Ravenet--Invented, Painted and Published by William Hogarth According to Act of Parliament April 1st, 1745
Accession NumberGift of William George Sullivan
CopyrightPrints, Drawings, and Photographs
Color PaletteWilliam George Sullivan; given to the John Herron Art Institute, Indianapolis, Indiana, now the Indianapolis Museum of Art at Newfields, in 1930.
The lady, now a countess rating a coronet above her bed, is attended by a variety of friends and hangers-on. The singer and the flautist have enraptured a woman identifiable as Mrs. Fox Lane, a noted impresario of fashionable drawing room concerts. The newly minted countess, whose hair is being dressed, has ears only for Counselor Silvertongue, who is arranging a tryst at a masquerade by referring to a painted screen. The boudoir is hung with erotic Old Masters paintings, with the exception of a portrait of Silvertongue, suggesting the husband’s unfamiliarity with this room.
Exhibition Name
Venue
Dates
William Hogarth: The Painter of Comic History
Indianapolis Museum of Art
August 31, 2012 - August 4, 2013
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