Ill-Matched Marriage
1520
oil
From the collection of São Paulo Museum of Art
1520
oil
From the collection of São Paulo Museum of Art
Dominant colour
Ill-Matched Marriage is a 1520 oil by Quinten Metsys, a northern_renaissance work, held at São Paulo Museum of Art.
Ill‑Matched Marriage is an oil painting made around 1520 by Quinten Metsys. The work shows a marriage arranged for money between a young and an older person. It is thought to be based on a lost drawing by Leonardo da Vinci, and the panel was given to the São Paulo Museum of Art in 1965 by the collector Baron Hans Heinrich Thyssen‑Bornemisza. If you’re curious about where you can see it, check out the museum: São Paulo Museum of Art.
