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Learn with us each week about a new art piece. This week the unequal marriage by Vasili Pukirev. The Unequal Marriage (1862) by Vasily Pukirev is a poignant Russian Realist painting that portrays a young, sorrowful bride being wed to a much older groom in a church, highlighting the emotional toll of arranged marriages driven by wealth and social pressure. The bride’s downcast expression and pale demeanor contrast sharply with the groom’s confident posture, emphasizing the injustice and imbalance of their union. Pukirev included himself among the onlookers, suggesting a personal connection to the story and reinforcing the painting’s critique of 19th-century societal norms that often left women with little agency in choosing their partners. Painted in the Realism style, which was populair in the 19th century in Russia.