#the reluctant bride

[crazy-for-cobel]

I think I’m onto something

[mariaseelie]

The Reluctant King

(Reference the reluctant Bride, Auguste Toulmouche (1866)

[enragedandy]

The Reluctant Queen

[aweirdfan]

Its literaly the same picture.

[connley]

i thought this would be cool. or funny. i don’t know!

[everythingwasalreadypicked]

"I made my peace with Olympus" says goddess who has very much not made her peace with Olympus.

This was a lights/shadows practice, some close ups and reference under the cut

[insane-in-the-membranee]

Women? Women.

Cleopatra (John William Waterhouse) || A Stolen Glance (Eugene de Blaas) || The Accolade (Edmund Blair Leighton) || Unknown || The Reluctant Bride (August Toulmouche) || Head of a Young Girl 1777 (Jean Baptiste Greuze) || War Pieta (Max Ginsburg) || Lady Elizabeth Keppel (Joshua Reynolds) || Joan of Arc (John Everett Millais) ||

[vankelmod]

[bisclavret]

enid, guinevere, vivien || the reluctant bride

[portraitofadumbassonfire]

Music for Art

Here are playlists I've made based on various paintings I've been fascinated by for a while now. The songs I've picked, for me, match the mood that each paintings gives me.

From right to left:

Galconda (1953) | Wanderer above the Sea of Fog (1818) | The Swing (1767) | Jacob Wrestling with the Angel (1876) | The Desperate Man (1843) | Love's Shadow | Soir Bleu (1914) | The Reluctant Bride (1866) | Witches' Flight (1798) | Ophelia (1851)

[saym0-0]

i really don't expect to finish this so have a UDAD hades, persephone and cerberus redraw of this painting (the reluctant bride by auguste toulmouche) because the idea wouldnt leave my brain lol

[annemarart]

the reluctant bride

context  ⋆.˚ ᡣ𐭩 .𖥔˚

the reluctant bride (la fiancée hésitante - also translated to “the hesitant fiancée” or “the hesitant betrothed”) is an oil painting made by auguste toulmouche in 1866. it is now held in a private collection. 

toulmouche usually had paintings that contained one or two girls but this one contained four girls of different ages which adds complexity to the scene. the bride wears a white wedding dress, a colour popularised by queen victoria, and stands in the middle. the two girls on the each side of the bride appear to be consoling her - it’s uncertain whether they are just friends or sisters.

this wedding was clearly not the bride’s choice as she appears to be upper middle class so she couldn’t marry out of the love in her heart, perhaps not even consulted about the marriage.

painting details ⋆.˚ ᡣ𐭩 .𖥔˚

༉‧₊˚. the fourth girl wearing a pink dress in the background adds a touch of innocence into the painting as she appears to be oblivious to the bride’s hesitance and is instead admiring her flower crown and possibly fantasising about her future marriage, unaware of social expectations and just aware of the love that surrounds marriage

༉‧₊˚. the room, possibly the bride’s, is decorated in a normal style of 19th century housing. it is beautiful, personal and contrasts well with the bride’s bright white dress

༉‧₊˚. the bride holds a direct gaze with the viewer, her annoyance clear, and she shows no reaction to the comfort of the two girls next to her

critic reviews ⋆.˚ ᡣ𐭩 .𖥔˚

“it is one of those small interior scenes that the artist excels at painting. they are always the same young women or girls, […] this time, it is this charming blonde that you know; dressed in her bridal gown, she is sitting, surrounded by her friends that console her, […] this delicate composition will not wait long to be, like its predecessors, popularized in engravings and photography.”

༉‧₊˚. lucien dubois ᡣ𐭩 chronique – nos artistes au salon de 1866, le cadre

“submerged in a melancholic daydream, she [the bride] reveals regret for the past and a vague worry about the future. while she abandons her thoughts to a thousand concerns whose exact meaning escapes her, two of her friends try to detach her from her dark ideas.”

༉‧₊˚. félix jahyer ᡣ𐭩 salon de 1866: deuxième étude sur les beaux-arts, bnf gallica

[reesoliloquy]

“She is a virgin-harlot. She is vulgar, witty, knowledgeable to a depth that terrifies, cruel when she is most kind, unthinking while she thinks, and when she seeks to build she is a destructive as a coriolis storm.”

-Frank Herbert, Dune Messiah

-Painting: The Reluctant Bride by Auguste Toulmouche (1866)

[purpleknightress]

• The Rightful Heir •

Inspired by ‘The Reluctant Bride’ by Auguste Toulmouche.

[sunflowerpirateart]

Kiss Art February, Day 14: The Reluctant Bride (1866)

[anotherbasicgirlie]

The Reluctant Fiancée, Auguste Toulmouche, 1866

A young woman in a wealthy setting, a bride to be, unhappy about her impending marriage. Her reluctance caused by her lack of choice in her marriage, arranged marriages being the norm in the 19th century, particularly among high status families, marrying for social and financial reasons.

Staring directly at the viewer, at the people of her social class, staring back at the ones viewing her like an object to be admired and traded. Her marriage arranged to maintain her social place, she blames them, it is their fault.