'Marriage of Convenience' by Orchardson
'Garden of Eden' by Riviere
These two paintings show a great deal about relationships. In the first, a beautiful young wife sits listless at the dinner table, bored with her much older husband in a wealthy Victorian household. In the second, painted around 1900 and much more 'modern' in style, a young couple walk in a London park. Her face is eager and she is plainly in love with the young man, who is probably in a modest white-collar job - perhaps a solicitor's clerk? Where can happiness really be found?
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