# The Immured

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## Artwork

- Artist: [FRAGONARD, Alexandre-Évariste](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/fragonard-alexandre-variste-rcd85e457f626b6>)
- Date: 1801-1850
- Technique: Watercolour over a black pencil sketch, 490 x 360 mm

## Commentary

When a walled-up doorway in a feudal castle is reopened, a couple embracing is discovered, apparently intact. A second couple in Renaissance garb looks on aghast at the sight. This superb watercolour, with its enigmatic subject, is typical of the Troubadour style.

## Related artworks

- [Cardinal Mazarin at the Deathbed of Eustache Le Sueur](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/fragonard-alexandre-variste-rcd85e457f626b6/cardinal-mazarin-at-the-deathbed-of-eustache-le-sueur-r66122c39cbd0df>)
- [Don Juan and the Statute of the Commander](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/fragonard-alexandre-variste-rcd85e457f626b6/don-juan-and-the-statute-of-the-commander-r668774930a8637>)
- [Vivant Denon Replacing El Cid&#39;s Remains in their Tombs](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/fragonard-alexandre-variste-rcd85e457f626b6/vivant-denon-replacing-el-cids-remains-in-their-tombs-r8622f1027920fb>)

## Attribution

[Web Gallery of Art](<https://beta.wga.hu/pages/about>)