Marriage A-la-Mode (Hogarth)
SERIES OF SIX PAINTINGS BY WILLIAM HOGARTH
Marriage a-la-mode (Hogarth); Marriage à-la-mode (Hogarth)
Marriage A-la-ModeMarriage A-la-Mode, National Gallery, London 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.