The Wedding of Leopold I of Belgium and Louise of Orléans (French: Le Mariage de Léopold Ier, roi de Belges, et de Louise d'Orléans) is an 1837 history painting by the French artist Joseph-Désiré Court.Dion-Tenenbaum p.44Caude p.55 It depicts the wedding between Leopold I of Belgium and Louise of Orléans that took place at the Château de Compiègne on 9 August 1832. Leopold, the first King of Belgium with strong connections to the British Royal Family, made a dynastic match with Louise who was the eldest daughter of the French monarch Louis Philippe I.Andrews & Wangdi p.112-13Price p.222 France had provided military support to Belgium against the Netherlands during recent fighting in the wake of the Belgian Revolution.
The painting was commissioned by Louis Philippe Ihttps://compiegne-peintures.fr/notice/notice.php?id=30 to commemorate the event. Today the work hangs at the Château de Compiègne. A version also exists in the collection of the Musée de l'Histoire de France at the Palace of Versailles.https://pop.culture.gouv.fr/notice/joconde/000PE009522?mainSearch=%22%5Ct%20Joseph-D%C3%A9sir%C3%A9%20Court%20%20%22&last_view=%22list%22&idQuery=%228a6d24-b571-f5c8-5ff5-f5c24d4bf0f%22
References
Bibliography Andrews, Gordon P. & Wangdi, Yosay D. (ed.) The Role of Agency and Memory in Historical Understanding: Revolution, Reform, and Rebellion. Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2017. Caude, Élisabeth. Le palais impérial de Compiègne. Musées et monuments de France, 2008. Dion-Tenenbaum, Anne. Marie d'Orléans, 1813-1839: Princesse et artiste romantique. Musée du Louvre, 2008. Price, Munro. The Perilous Crown: France Between Revolutions, 1814-1848. Pan Macmillan, 2010.