Helen Flockhart
Linger Awhile, 2018
oil on linen
102 x 152cm
It's Mary and The Dauphin François, her first husband. She, as you know was almost 6 foot tall and he was a small sickly thing,but it seems that in spite...
It's Mary and The Dauphin François, her first husband. She, as you know was almost 6 foot tall and he was a small sickly thing,but it seems that in spite of their's being essentially an arranged marriage there was genuine affection and tenderness between them. They had gron up and played together as children in France and were promised to each other by their families when just a few years old. She was only 15 when they married and he, I think 14. It's thought he hadn't even reached puberty and it's uncertain whether their relationship was consumated. Nevertheless it was a brief happy time in her life and not knowing what was to come in the years to come,as Antonia Fraser said,the words of Goethe in Faust : Linger awhile -thou art so fair, Then bind me in thy bonds undyung, And my frail ruin I will bear
would be understandably apt were she to wish to bargain away all just to remain in that fleeting moment of relative benignity and safety and happiness.
It's Mary and The Dauphin François, her first husband. She, as you know was almost 6 foot tall and he was a small sickly thing,but it seems that in spite of their's being essentially an arranged marriage there was genuine affection and tenderness between them. They had gron up and played together as children in France and were promised to each other by their families when just a few years old. She was only 15 when they married and he, I think 14. It's thought he hadn't even reached puberty and it's uncertain whether their relationship was consumated. Nevertheless it was a brief happy time in her life and not knowing what was to come in the years to come,as Antonia Fraser said,the words of Goethe in Faust : Linger awhile -thou art so fair, Then bind me in thy bonds undyung, And my frail ruin I will bear
would be understandably apt were she to wish to bargain away all just to remain in that fleeting moment of relative benignity and safety and happiness.
would be understandably apt were she to wish to bargain away all just to remain in that fleeting moment of relative benignity and safety and happiness.
It's Mary and The Dauphin François, her first husband. She, as you know was almost 6 foot tall and he was a small sickly thing,but it seems that in spite of their's being essentially an arranged marriage there was genuine affection and tenderness between them. They had gron up and played together as children in France and were promised to each other by their families when just a few years old. She was only 15 when they married and he, I think 14. It's thought he hadn't even reached puberty and it's uncertain whether their relationship was consumated. Nevertheless it was a brief happy time in her life and not knowing what was to come in the years to come,as Antonia Fraser said,the words of Goethe in Faust : Linger awhile -thou art so fair, Then bind me in thy bonds undyung, And my frail ruin I will bear
would be understandably apt were she to wish to bargain away all just to remain in that fleeting moment of relative benignity and safety and happiness.
