William Hogarthイングランド, 1697–1764Before
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About the painting
This narrative painting describes the moments before a seduction. A young man in red breeches attempts to pull a young woman onto a bed. Struggling, she tries to push him away, dragging her dressing table down with her. Ironically, an open drawer reveals a book on the rules of courtship. Below, a small dog barks, alarmed by the commotion. In the Biographical Anecdotes of William Hogarth, published in 1785, John Nichols wrote that a certain vicious nobleman, the Duke of Montague, supposedly commissioned this painting and its companion, [After](http://www.getty.edu/art/collection/objects/661/william-hogarth-after-english-1730-1731/). According to an old tradition, the protagonist was said to have been Sir John Willes, later Chief Justice of the Court of Common Pleas. Many artists made engravings, some of them scandalous, after these paintings. Hogarth's engravings after his own paintings are truer to the originals.
J・ポール・ゲティ美術館
作品データ
- 収蔵番号
- 78.PA.204
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出典
- J・ポール・ゲティ美術館: the museum's own open data · 10 時間前に取得
- 画像： J・ポール・ゲティ美術館 — Open Content
その頃、William Hogarthの人生では
生涯をすべて見る1712–1764 · 活動地
London
1727 – 28 May 1728
A lawsuit against the weaver Morris: “an engraver, and no painter”
In 1727 the tapestry worker Joshua Morris commissioned from Hogarth a design for “The Element of Earth”, but on hearing that he was “an engraver, and no painter” refused the finished work. Hogarth sued him in the Westminster court and won: judgment was given in his favour on 28 May 1728.
until 1728
Initiated as a Freemason
Before 1728 Hogarth was initiated as a Freemason in the lodge at the Hand and Apple Tree Tavern in Little Queen Street, and later belonged to the Carrier Stone Lodge and the Grand Stewards’ Lodge; for the latter he designed the “Hogarth Jewel”, the badge of the Lodge’s Master (the original is now in storage and a replica is worn by the present Master). Freemasonry is also a theme of “Night”, the fourth print of the “Four Times of the Day”.
23 March 1729
A secret wedding to Jane Thornhill
Not hoping for Sir James’s consent — he saw the match as unequal, Hogarth being a rather obscure artist then — William and Jane married in secret at Paddington Church. Jane and her mother helped to reconcile him with his father-in-law: they hung the first paintings of “A Harlot’s Progress” in his house, and on learning the artist’s name Sir James admitted that a man who could produce such pictures could also keep a wife without a dowry.
