Marriage A-la-Mode (Hogarth)

1. The Marriage Settlement

2. The Tête à Tête

3. The Inspection

4. The Toilette

5. The Bagnio

6. The Lady's Death

Marriage A-la-Mode^{[1][fn 1]} is a series of six pictures painted by William Hogarth between 1743 and 1745, intended as a pointed skewering of 18th-century society. They show the disastrous results of an ill-considered marriage for money or social status, and satirize patronage and aesthetics. The pictures are held in the National Gallery in London.

This series was not received as well as his other moral tales, A Harlot's Progress (1732) and A Rake's Progress (1735), and when the paintings were finally sold in 1751, it was for a much lower sum than the artist had hoped for.^[3]

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