Sujet

A Woman Meeting with Her Lover while Her Husband Sleeps, about 1405. Creator: Unknown.

Légende

A Woman Meeting with Her Lover while Her Husband Sleeps, about 1405. Additional Info: In this section of the text, the lover has begun his siege of the castle where the rose is being held, but he must first defeat the character called Old Age. She diligently guards Fair Welcome, the friend whom the lover must free in order to reach his beloved, the rose. This image accompanies a speech in which Old Age counsels the inexperienced Fair Welcome on the indiscretions of women and the pain they cause to men. She warns Fair Wisdom that women employ devious tricks to visit their lovers without raising the suspicion of their husbands. This image illustrates an example of such deceit: an unfaithful wife has drugged her husband with "a pound or more of herbs" so that he will sleep soundly while she cavorts with her lover. The artist depicted the couple in mid-embrace directly next to the bed in which the woman's husband sleeps obliviously, stressing the treachery practiced by the adulterous wife.

Crédit

Photo12/Heritage Images/Heritage Art

Notre référence

HRM24A78_247

Model release

NA

Property release

NA

Licence

Droits gérés

Format disponible

75,0Mo (7,1Mo) / 33,1cm x 56,7cm / 3914 x 6699 (300dpi)

Mots clés

female women woman people love detail marriage metal sleep sleeping bed room color decoration decorative medieval gold text century ink asleep concept lover details wives wife decorated husband manuscript lettering indiscretion illustrated unfaithful deceit Colour inset description adultery mediaeval Middle Ages devious gold leaf 15th century bedchamber cuckold fifteenth century illuminated manuscript tempera illustration bedroom ink manuscript Western script 1400s Unknown gold lower case french text bed chamber Folio Heritage Art folio verso Tempera colours gold leaf and ink