Title

The Duke of Orleans showing his Lover, 1825. Creator: Eugene Delacroix.

Caption

The Duke of Orleans showing his Lover, 1825. A passage in the Histoire des ducs de Borgogne by Barante describes how the Duke of Orléans displayed the naked body of his lover Mariette d’Enghien, wife of his former chamberlain Aubert le Flamenc, to her husband, concealing her face. Her husband failed to recognize her. Together with Barante’s text another more detailed one has been mentioned, which the artist may have used as his source. This is Les vies de dames galantes by Brântome, republished in 1822, two years before Barante’s text. In Brântome’s description the Duke of Orléans shows his lover to her husband, concealing her face with a sheet.

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Photo12/Heritage Images/Heritage Art

Reference

HRM24A24_387

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Keywords

female women woman people male man men historical love arts painting country marriage French France naked nude figure figures art guy sleep sleeping romantic museum bed room color hiding royal location century gallery sheet asleep furniture royalty concept lovers lover exhibition exhibit wives wife husband concealing nudity romanticism bedspread art museum art gallery nakedness Bedcover oil Painting Colour 19th century Museum of Art Duke nineteenth century culture history historic bedchamber Duke of Orleans Oil on canvas Orientalism orientalist bedroom bed cover Eugene Delacroix Delacroix Eugene Oil on canvas Romantic Era art centre bed chamber Museo Thyssen-Bornemisza Thyssen-Bornemisza Collection Heritage Art Ferdinand-Victor-Eug?ne Delacroix Ferdinand Victor Eug?ne Delacroix Eug?ne Delacroix Delacroix Eug?ne Delacroix Ferdinand Victor Eugene Ferdinand Victor Eugene Delacroix 19th-century bed-cover hiding face Museo Nacional Thyssen-Bornemisza Thyssen-Bornemisza Museum