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<p>[QUOTE="Aquitaine, post: 558843, member: 602"]I also found THIS story fascinating......read how the artist put himself and the carver of the frame IN the painting and what the carver did with the frame!!!!!</p><p><br /></p><p><a href="https://theframeblog.files.wordpress.com/2016/06/15-v-pukirev-the-unequal-marriage-1862.jpg" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://theframeblog.files.wordpress.com/2016/06/15-v-pukirev-the-unequal-marriage-1862.jpg" rel="nofollow"><img src="https://theframeblog.files.wordpress.com/2016/06/15-v-pukirev-the-unequal-marriage-1862.jpg?w=500&h=601" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></a></p><p><br /></p><p>Vasiliy Pukirev (1832-90),<i>The Unequal Marriage</i>, 1862, carved giltwood frame by craftsman Grebensky (fl.1860-70s). <a href="http://www.tretyakovgallery.ru/en/collection/_show/image/_id/157" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.tretyakovgallery.ru/en/collection/_show/image/_id/157" rel="nofollow">State Tretyakov Gallery</a>, Moscow</p><p><br /></p><p>Vasiliy Pukirev’s painting, <b><i>The unequal marriage</i></b>, is autobiographical, showing the artist’s mistress forced into a marriage of convenience with a much older man. The <b><i>artist</i></b> stands behind the bride on the extreme right, and the <b><i>carver</i></b> who made the frame is shown between the heads of the bride and groom. He was a friend of Pukirev, and decided to produce a frame which would comment on the subject with as much satiric force as the painting; <span style="color: #0080ff"><u>so he made a design which has a conventional frame structure, and overlaid it with a carving of withered branches entwined with fresh and blooming flowers</u></span>. This gives an added edge to the work, especially for the symbol-obsessed 19th century viewer.</p><p><br /></p><p>Love it!!! And with today's technology, I can't even imagine hand carving a frame!!![/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="Aquitaine, post: 558843, member: 602"]I also found THIS story fascinating......read how the artist put himself and the carver of the frame IN the painting and what the carver did with the frame!!!!! [URL='https://theframeblog.files.wordpress.com/2016/06/15-v-pukirev-the-unequal-marriage-1862.jpg'][IMG]https://theframeblog.files.wordpress.com/2016/06/15-v-pukirev-the-unequal-marriage-1862.jpg?w=500&h=601[/IMG][/URL] Vasiliy Pukirev (1832-90),[I]The Unequal Marriage[/I], 1862, carved giltwood frame by craftsman Grebensky (fl.1860-70s). [URL='http://www.tretyakovgallery.ru/en/collection/_show/image/_id/157']State Tretyakov Gallery[/URL], Moscow Vasiliy Pukirev’s painting, [B][I]The unequal marriage[/I][/B], is autobiographical, showing the artist’s mistress forced into a marriage of convenience with a much older man. The [B][I]artist[/I][/B] stands behind the bride on the extreme right, and the [B][I]carver[/I][/B] who made the frame is shown between the heads of the bride and groom. He was a friend of Pukirev, and decided to produce a frame which would comment on the subject with as much satiric force as the painting; [COLOR=#0080ff][U]so he made a design which has a conventional frame structure, and overlaid it with a carving of withered branches entwined with fresh and blooming flowers[/U][/COLOR]. This gives an added edge to the work, especially for the symbol-obsessed 19th century viewer. Love it!!! And with today's technology, I can't even imagine hand carving a frame!!![/QUOTE]
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