Nuptials

Martín Chambi
Wedding of Don Julio Gadea, Cuzco
1926
gelatin silver print
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art

Nicolas Vleughels
Marriage at Cana
1728
oil on copper
Alte Pinakothek, Munich

Pierre Tetar van Elven
Wedding in the Italian Campagna
ca. 1880
watercolor on paper
private collection

Lodewijk Toeput (Ludovico Pozzoserrato)
Marriage Portrait
before 1605
oil on canvas
Museo Civico di Treviso

Martin Parr
Wedding Preparations, England
1988
inkjet print
Museum of Modern Art, New York

Bernaert van Orley
Marriage of the Virgin
ca. 1513
oil on panel
National Gallery of Art, Washington DC

Domenico Mondo
Marriage of the Virgin
before 1806
drawing
British Museum

Lucas van Valckenborch
Peasant Wedding-Dance
1574
oil on panel
Statens Museum for Kunst, Copenhagen

Everlyn Nicodemus
The Wedding 45
1991
oil on canvas
Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art, Edinburgh

Guillaume Bodinier
Marriage Contract in Italy
1831
oil on canvas
Musée du Louvre

Jean-Antoine Watteau
Marriage Contract and Country Dance
ca. 1711
oil on canvas
Museo del Prado, Madrid

Eugène-Louis Lami
Marriage of the duc d'Epernon
1872
watercolor and gouache on paper
Clark Art Institute, Williamstown, Massachusetts

Gordon Onslow-Ford
Study for The Marriage
1946
watercolor and gouache on paper
Los Angeles County Museum of Art

Kristian Zahrtmann
Mystic Marriage of the Abbess of Pistoia
1894
oil on canvas
private collection

Niccolò Trometta
Marriage of the Virgin
ca. 1565-68
drawing (fresco study)
British Museum

Richard Caton Woodville
The Sailor's Wedding
1852
oil on canvas
Walters Art Museum, Baltimore

Anonymous Artist
Medallion to celebrate the Marriage
of Mary, Queen of Scots and Henry Stuart, Lord Darnley
1565
silver
Scottish National Portrait Gallery, Edinburgh

from Forefathers

Unrecorded, unrenowned,

        Men from whom my ways begin,

Here I know you by your ground

        But I know you not within –

There is silence, there survives

Not a moment of your lives.

– Edmund Blunden (1920)