The Bride of Death is an 1839 oil painting by the British artist Thomas Jones Barker. Based on a traditional French ballad about a young woman who dies on the eve of her wedding, it reflects the fashi
Barker, The Bride of Death, 1839, Victoria Art Gallery
Princess Marie of Orléans was a French princess, artist, and, by her marriage, duchess of Württemberg. Before her marriage, she was styled Mademoiselle de Valois.
The Bride of Death (painting)
…he produced this work, Jones Barker went on to be a prominent figure during the Victorian era in his native Britain. The picture was a commission from Princess Marie of Orléans, the daughter of Louis Philippe I. The work was displayed at the Salon of 1841 held at the Louvre in Paris where it was awarded a medal. It was also…
1839 portrait
Princess Marie in her studio in the Tuileries Palace (by Prosper Lafaye, c. 1842)
Duchess Alexander of Württemberg and her son, Duke Philipp, by Franz Xaver Winterhalter, 1838
Windows of St. Saturnin's Chapel in the Palace of Fontainebleau