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Thomas Jones Barker, The Bride of Death, 1839, Victoria Art Gallery

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Thomas Jones Barker: The Bride of Death  wikidata:Q131385365 reasonator:Q131385365
Artist
Thomas Jones Barker  (1815–1882)  wikidata:Q1550144
 
Thomas Jones Barker
Description British painter
Date of birth/death 1815 Edit this at Wikidata 27 March 1882 Edit this at Wikidata
Location of birth/death Bath Edit this at Wikidata Haverstock Hill (London)
Work location
Paris, Haverstock Hill
Authority file
artist QS:P170,Q1550144
image of artwork listed in title parameter on this page
Title
The Bride of Death
label QS:Len,"The Bride of Death"
Object type painting
object_type QS:P31,Q3305213
Description
English: Thomas Jones Barker, The Bride of Death (La fiancée de la Mort), 1839, Victoria Art Gallery. Oil on canvas, 124.5 x W 167.1 cm. One of two royal commissions Barker executed while he lived in Paris, it was painted for Princess Marie, daughter of King Louis Philippe of France. The painting's entry in the catalogue for the Paris Salon of 1841 includes the old French ballad that inspired Barker's painting:
poem text
Laure est là sur son lit, comme un ange qui dort :

Viens couronner de fleurs ta jeune fiancée!
—Mais ses yeux sont éteints, sa poitrine est glacée.
   Elle est épouse de la mort!

Pauvre amant, le trépas t'a ravi l'espérance!
Elle t'aimait dés l'aube, on t'éloigna le soir;
Ton départ pour son coeur fut comme un coup de lance!
   Elle est morte de désespoir!

Des fleurs, des fleurs sur elle!... Orne sa blonde tête
De ces filles des bois aux modestes nattraits;
Point de roses surtout; ce sont des fleurs de fête.
   Des violettes, des cyprès!

Mais ne la pleure pas!... Elle avait lrop.de charmes
Pour vivre dan un monde ignorant du vrai beau.
Cet ange, prisonnier dans nos vallon de larmes,
   Devient libre par le tombeau!


Laure is there on her bed, like a sleeping angel:
Come crown your young bride with flowers!
But her eyes are extinguished, her breast is frozen.
   She is the wife of death!

Poor lover, death has robbed you of hope!
She loved you at dawn, she was taken at dusk;
Your departure was like a spear in her heart!
   She died of despair!

Flowers, flowers for her! Adorn her fair head
like those girls of the forest with modest charms;
Above all no roses; they are festive flowers.
   Violets, cypresses!

But weep not for her! She was too sublime
To live in a world ignorant of true beauty.
This angel, a prisoner in our valley of tears,
   Set free by the tomb!

Date 1839
date QS:P571,+1839-00-00T00:00:00Z/9
Medium oil on canvas
medium QS:P186,Q296955;P186,Q12321255,P518,Q861259
Dimensions 124.5 x W 167.1 cm
Victoria Art Gallery
Source/Photographer https://artuk.org/discover/artworks/the-bride-of-death-39835/search/actor:barker-thomas-jones-18151882/page/1/view_as/grid

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