ART H205 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Gout, Genre Art
14 Oct 2016
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A grand portrait in the french manner on the rear wall confronts a medusa head, denoting horror, on the side wall. "marriage a-la-mode" was the first of the artiust"s satirical moralising series of engravings that took the upper echelons of society as its subject. The paintings were models from which the engravings would be made. The engravings reverse the compositions: the story starts in the mansion of the earl squander who is arranging to marry his son to the daughter of a wealthy but mean city merchant. It ends with the murder of the son and the suicide of the daughter. In the first scene the aged earl (far right) is shown with his family tree and the crutches he needs because of his gout. The new house which he is having built is visible through the window: the merchant, who is plainly dressed, holds the marriage contract, while his daughter behind him listens to a young lawyer,
