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Wedding Supper
Martin van Meytens1763
Schönbrunn Palace
Vienna, Austria
This painting is from the five-part Wedding Cycle depicting the festivities celebrating the nuptials of the heir to the Austrian throne, Joseph, and Isabella of Parma on 5 October 1760. It depicts the wedding supper in the Redoute Hall of the Vienna Hofburg. The table is set for dessert and decked with porcelain, while its inner side is decorated with a centrepiece in the form of a garden made of coloured sugarpaste.
Details
- Title: Wedding Supper
- Creator Lifespan: 1695 - 1770
- Creator Nationality: Swedish
- Creator Gender: Male
- Creator Death Place: Vienna
- Creator Birth Place: Stockholm
- Date: 1763
- Work of art: Schönbrunn Palace, Schönbrunn Palace
- Process/technique: Painted
- Physical Dimensions: w300 x h400 cm
- Painter: Martin van Meytens
- Epoch: 18th century
- Provenance: Bundesmobilienverwaltung
- Type: Painting
- External Link: http://www.schoenbrunn.at/en/things-to-know/palace/tour-of-the-palace/hall-of-ceremonies.html
- Medium: Oil on canvas
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