Wolfram Introducing Bertrand of Navarre to the Place where he had Confined his Wife with the Skeleton of her Lover
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Wolfram Introducing Bertrand of Navarre to the Place where he had Confined his Wife with the Skeleton of her Lover circa 1812-1820 is a painting by Henry Fuseli. The work is said to be based on a novella of the Heptameron, but the names Wolfram nor Bertrand are found in this tale collection. The painting thus probably refers to the 32nd novella, the story of Magdalen's skull.
The work is also titled Wolfram führt Bertram von Navarra in die Zelle seiner Gemahlin in German or Wolfram Observing his Wife in her Walled-in Cell in English.
- The lord of a castle shows an unseen visitor his faithless wife, secreted in a sepulchral chamber, embracing the headless, skeletal remains of her lover. A young admirer recalled Fuseli telling the story: ‘At breakfast Fuseli mentioned a picture which he had just sketched from an ancient German Ballad and promised at night to relate the Story – for he said it must be at night – “I can only tell it at night”’.--Tate[1]
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