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Marriage à-la-mode: 2. The Tête à Tête (1743) by William Hogarth
The Tête à Tête is the second canvas in the series of six satirical paintings known as Marriage à-la-mode painted by William Hogarth. The actors in this classical interior are the son of an impoverished earl, a rich merchant’s daughter and their butler.

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London's National Gallery, founded in 1824, houses a rich collection of over 2,300 paintings dating from the mid-13th century to 1900 in its home on Trafalgar Square. The collection belongs to the British public and entry to the main collection is free, although there are charges for entry to special exhibitions.

The National Gallery's beginnings were modest; unlike comparable galleries such as the Louvre in Paris or the Museo del Prado in Madrid, it was not formed by nationalising an existing royal or princely art collection. It came into being when the British government bought 36 paintings from the banker John Julius Angerstein in 1824. After that initial purchase the Gallery has been shaped mainly by its early directors, notably Sir Charles Lock Eastlake, and by private donations, which comprise two thirds of the collection. The resulting collection is small compared with the national galleries of continental Europe, but has a high concentration of important works across a broad art-historical scope, from the Early Renaissance to Post-impressionism, with relatively few weak areas.

The present building, on the northern side of Trafalgar Square, is the third to house the Gallery, and like its predecessors it has often been deemed inadequate. The façade by William Wilkins is the only part of his original building of 1832–8 that remains essentially unchanged, as the structure as a whole has been altered and expanded in a piecemeal manner throughout its history. Notable additions have been made by E. M. Barry and Robert Venturi. The current Director of the National Gallery is Nicholas Penny.

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 The Tête à Tête is the second canvas in the series of six [[satirical]] paintings known as ''Marriage à-la-mode'' painted by William Hogarth. The actors in this classical interior are the son of an [[impoverished]] earl, a [[rich]] merchant’s daughter and their [[butler]].]]
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-London's '''National Gallery''', founded in 1824, houses a rich collection of over 2,300 paintings dating from the mid-13th century to 1900{{Ref_label|A|a|none}} in its home on [[Trafalgar Square]]. The collection belongs to the British public and entry to the main collection is free, although there are charges for entry to special exhibitions.
+London's '''National Gallery''', founded in 1824, houses a rich collection of over 2,300 paintings dating from the mid-13th century to 1900 in its home on [[Trafalgar Square]]. The collection belongs to the British public and entry to the main collection is free, although there are charges for entry to special exhibitions.
 The National Gallery's beginnings were modest; unlike comparable galleries such as the [[Louvre]] in Paris or the [[Museo del Prado]] in Madrid, it was not formed by nationalising an existing royal or princely art collection. It came into being when the [[Her Majesty's Government|British government]] bought 36 paintings from the banker [[John Julius Angerstein]] in 1824. After that initial purchase the Gallery has been shaped mainly by its early directors, notably Sir [[Charles Lock Eastlake]], and by private donations, which comprise two thirds of the collection. The resulting collection is small compared with the national galleries of continental Europe, but has a high concentration of important works across a broad art-historical scope, from the [[Early Renaissance painting|Early Renaissance]] to [[Post-impressionism]], with relatively few weak areas.
 ==Collection highlights==
+:''[[Catalogue of paintings in the National Gallery, London]]''
-; English or French Medieval
+* English or French Medieval: ''[[Wilton Diptych|The Wilton Diptych]]''
-: ''[[The Wilton Diptych]]''
+* [[Jan van Eyck]]: ''[[Arnolfini Portrait|The Arnolfini Portrait]]''
-; [[Paolo Uccello]]: ''[[The Battle of San Romano]]''
+* [[Pisanello]]: ''[[The Vision of Saint Eustace]]''
-; [[Piero della Francesca]]: ''[[The Baptism of Christ (Piero della Francesca)|The Baptism of Christ]]''
+* [[Paolo Uccello]]: ''[[The Battle of San Romano]]'', ''[[Saint George and the Dragon (Uccello)|Saint George and the Dragon]]''
-; [[Jan van Eyck]]: ''[[The Arnolfini Portrait]]''
+* [[Rogier van der Weyden]]: ''[[The Magdalen Reading]]''
-; [[Sandro Botticelli]]: ''[[Venus and Mars (Botticelli)|Venus and Mars]]''
+* [[Masaccio]]: ''[[Madonna and Child (Masaccio)|Madonna and Child]]''
-; [[Leonardo da Vinci]]: ''[[Virgin of the Rocks|The Virgin of the Rocks]]'', ''[[The Virgin and Child with St Anne and St John the Baptist|The Burlington House Cartoon]]''
+* [[Dieric Bouts]]: ''[[The Entombment (Bouts)|The Entombment]]''
-; [[Michelangelo]]: ''[[The Entombment]]'', ''The Manchester Madonna''
+* [[Piero della Francesca]]: ''[[The Baptism of Christ (Piero della Francesca)|The Baptism of Christ]]''
-; [[Raphael]]: ''[[Portrait of Pope Julius II (Raphael)|Portrait of Pope Julius II]]'', ''[[Madonna of the Pinks|The Madonna of the Pinks]]'', ''[[Mond Crucifixion|The Mond Crucifixion]]''
+* [[Antonello da Messina]]: ''[[Portrait of a Man (Antonello da Messina, London)|Portrait of a Man]]'', ''[[St. Jerome in His Study (Antonello da Messina)|St Jerome in his Study]]''
-; [[Titian]]: ''[[Bacchus and Ariadne]]'', ''The Death of Actaeon''
+* [[Giovanni Bellini]]: ''[[Agony in the Garden (Bellini)|The Agony in the Garden]]'', ''[[Madonna del Prato (Bellini)|Madonna del Prato]]'', ''[[Portrait of Doge Leonardo Loredan]]''
-; [[Hans Holbein the Younger]]: ''[[The Ambassadors (Holbein)|The Ambassadors]]
+* [[Piero del Pollaiolo]]: ''[[Martyrdom of Saint Sebastian (Piero del Pollaiolo)|The Martyrdom of Saint Sebastian]]''
-; [[Agnolo Bronzino]]: ''[[Venus, Cupid, Folly and Time]]''
+* [[Sandro Botticelli]]: ''[[Venus and Mars (Botticelli)|Venus and Mars]]''
-; [[Caravaggio|Michaelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio]]: ''[[Boy Bitten by a Lizard (Caravaggio)|Boy Bitten by a Lizard]]'', ''[[Supper at Emmaus (London) (Caravaggio)|Supper at Emmaus]]'', ''[[Salome with the Head of John the Baptist (Caravaggio, London)|Salome with the Head of John the Baptist]]''
+* [[Hieronymus Bosch]]: ''[[Christ Crowned with Thorns (Bosch, London)|Christ Crowned with Thorns]]''
-; [[Peter Paul Rubens]]: ''Le Chapeau de Paille'', ''The Judgement of Paris'' (two versions), ''Landscape with Het Steen''
+* [[Leonardo da Vinci]]: ''[[Virgin of the Rocks|The Virgin of the Rocks]]'', ''[[The Virgin and Child with St Anne and St John the Baptist]]''
-; [[Nicolas Poussin]]: ''A Bacchanalian Revel Before a Term'', ''Landscape with a Man Killed by a Snake''
+* [[Albrecht Dürer]], ''[[St. Jerome in the Wilderness (Dürer)|St Jerome in the Wilderness]]''
-; [[Diego Velázquez]]: ''[[Rokeby Venus|The Rokeby Venus]]''
+* [[Michelangelo]]: ''[[The Entombment (Michelangelo)|The Entombment]]'', ''[[Manchester Madonna|The Manchester Madonna]]''
-; [[Anthony van Dyck]]: ''Equestrian Portrait of Charles I''
+* [[Jan Mabuse|Jan Gossaert]]: ''[[The Adoration of the Kings (Gossaert)|The Adoration of the Kings]]''
-; [[Rembrandt]]: ''[[Belshazzar's Feast (Rembrandt)|Belshazzar's Feast]]'', two self-portraits
+* [[Raphael]]: ''[[Aldobrandini Madonna|The Aldobrandini Madonna]]'', ''[[Ansidei Madonna|The Ansidei Madonna]]'', ''[[Portrait of Pope Julius II (Raphael)|Portrait of Pope Julius II]]'', ''[[Madonna of the Pinks|The Madonna of the Pinks]]'', ''[[Mond Crucifixion|The Mond Crucifixion]]'', ''[[Vision of a Knight (Raphael)|Vision of a Knight]]''
-; [[Salvator Rosa]] : ''Self-Portrait''
+* [[Titian]]: ''[[Allegory of Prudence]]'', ''[[Bacchus and Ariadne]]'', ''[[Diana and Actaeon (Titian)|Diana and Actaeon]]'', ''[[Diana and Callisto]]'', ''[[The Death of Actaeon]]'', ''[[A Man with a Quilted Sleeve]]'', ''[[Portrait of the Vendramin Family]]''
-; [[Johannes Vermeer]]: ''Lady Standing at a Virginal'', ''Lady Seated at a Virginal''
+* [[Hans Holbein the Younger]]: ''[[The Ambassadors (Holbein)|The Ambassadors]]''
-; [[Canaletto]]: ''A Regatta on the Grand Canal'', ''The Stonemason's Yard''
+* [[Parmigianino]]: ''[[Portrait of a Collector]]'', ''[[Vision of Saint Jerome|The Vision of Saint Jerome]]''
-; [[William Hogarth]]: ''[[Marriage à-la-Mode]]''
+* [[Agnolo Bronzino]]: ''[[Venus, Cupid, Folly and Time]]''
-; [[George Stubbs]]: ''Whistlejacket''
+* [[Tintoretto]]: ''[[The Origin of the Milky Way (Tintoretto)|The Origin of the Milky Way]]''
-; [[Thomas Gainsborough]]: ''[[Mr and Mrs Andrews]]''
+* [[Pieter Bruegel the Elder]]: ''[[The Adoration of the Kings (Bruegel)|The Adoration of the Kings]]''
-; [[Joseph Wright of Derby]]: ''[[An Experiment on a Bird in the Air Pump]]''
+* [[Paolo Veronese]]: ''[[The Family of Darius before Alexander]]''
-; [[J. M. W. Turner]]: ''[[The Fighting Temeraire]]'', ''[[Rain, Steam and Speed - The Great Western Railway|Rain, Steam and Speed]]''
+* [[El Greco]]: ''[[Christ Driving the Money Changers from the Temple (El Greco, London)|Christ Driving the Money Changers from the Temple]]''
-; [[John Constable]]: ''[[The Hay Wain]]''
+* [[Caravaggio]]: ''[[Boy Bitten by a Lizard (Caravaggio)|Boy Bitten by a Lizard]]'', ''[[Supper at Emmaus (London) (Caravaggio)|Supper at Emmaus]]'', ''[[Salome with the Head of John the Baptist (Caravaggio, London)|Salome with the Head of John the Baptist]]''
-; [[Paul Cézanne]]: ''Les Grandes Baigneuses''
+* [[Peter Paul Rubens]]: ''[[The Judgement of Paris (Rubens)|The Judgement of Paris]]''
-; [[Claude Monet]]: ''The Water-Lily Pond'', ''The Thames Below Westminster''
+* [[Nicolas Poussin]]: ''[[The Adoration of the Golden Calf]]''
-; [[Pierre-Auguste Renoir]]: ''The Umbrellas'', ''Boating on the Seine''
+* [[Diego Velázquez]]: ''[[Christ in the House of Martha and Mary (Velázquez)|Christ in the House of Martha and Mary]]'', ''[[Rokeby Venus|The Rokeby Venus]]''
-; [[Georges Seurat]]: ''[[Une Baignade, Asnières|Bathers at Asnières]]''
+* [[Anthony van Dyck]]: ''[[Equestrian Portrait of Charles I]]''
-; [[Vincent van Gogh]]: ''[[Sunflowers (series of paintings)|Sunflowers]]'', ''Van Gogh's Chair'', ''A Wheatfield, with Cypresses''
+* [[Claude Lorrain]]: ''[[The Embarkation of the Queen of Sheba|Seaport with the Embarkation of the Queen of Sheba]]''
+* [[Rembrandt]]: ''[[Belshazzar's Feast (Rembrandt)|Belshazzar's Feast]]''
+* [[Johannes Vermeer]]: ''[[Lady Standing at a Virginal]]'', ''[[Lady Seated at a Virginal]]''
+* [[Canaletto]]: ''[[The Stonemason's Yard]]''
+* [[William Hogarth]]: ''[[Marriage à-la-mode (Hogarth)|Marriage à-la-mode]]''
+* [[George Stubbs]]: ''[[Whistlejacket]]''
+* [[Thomas Gainsborough]]: ''[[Mr and Mrs Andrews]]''
+* [[Joseph Wright of Derby]]: ''[[An Experiment on a Bird in the Air Pump]]''
+* [[Francisco Goya]]: ''[[Portrait of the Duke of Wellington (Goya)|Portrait of the Duke of Wellington]]''
+* [[J. M. W. Turner]]: ''[[The Fighting Temeraire]]'', ''[[Rain, Steam and Speed – The Great Western Railway|Rain, Steam and Speed]]''
+* [[John Constable]]: ''[[The Cornfield]]'', ''[[The Hay Wain]]''
+* [[Jean Auguste Dominique Ingres]]: ''[[Madame Moitessier]]''
+* [[Eugène Delacroix]]: ''[[Ovid among the Scythians]]''
+* [[Edgar Degas]]: ''[[Miss La La at the Cirque Fernando]]'', ''[[Young Spartans Exercising]]''
+* [[Paul Cézanne]]: ''[[The Bathers (Cézanne)|Les Grandes Baigneuses]]''
+* [[Claude Monet]]: ''[[Snow at Argenteuil]]''
+* [[Pierre-Auguste Renoir]]: ''[[The Umbrellas (Renoir painting)|The Umbrellas]]''
+* [[Henri Rousseau]]: ''[[Tiger in a Tropical Storm|Tiger in a Tropical Storm (Surprised!)]]''
+* [[Vincent van Gogh]]: ''[[Sunflowers (Van Gogh series)|Sunflowers]]'', ''[[A Wheatfield with Cypresses]]''
+* [[Georges Seurat]]: ''[[Bathers at Asnières]]''
+==See also==
+*[[Catalogue of paintings in the National Gallery, London]]
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