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This lively composition likely commemorates the marriage of Laurence Minne and Achille Marchand, a renowned Belgian architect. Wine flows and food is plentiful at this wedding feast, as guests of all ages crowd inside a restaurant and share in the celebration. Despite the activity surrounding them, the newlyweds at the centre of the table are engrossed in a secretive exchange as the bride coyly glances at the gold pocket watch in her groom’s hand, perhaps hinting at an imminent departure. The gentleman in the foreground offering a small white flower to an elegant woman adorned in blue bears a likeness to the artist himself, while a man admiring a young girl in vibrant green at the far right resembles the groom’s brother, Emile Marchand.
[Sotheby’s, New York - Oil on canvas, 100 x 145.1 cm]
