Marianne Stokes
Marianne Stokes (born Preindlsberger) was an Austrian painter who married the British landscape painter Adrian Scott Stokes. They had no children, were both devoted to their art, and traveled Europe extensively. These travels fueled their inspiration, and Marianne’s thematically diverse oeuvre reflects this. The Queen and the Page is a clear inspiration Stokes got from the English Pre-Raphaelites.
We can sense the 19th-century vision of the Middle Ages here. The artist focuses on the two figures of the Queen and her Page, who are seen walking through a forest. The space around them is painted in soft, tender shades of blue, gray, and green, and it looks very dreamy and remote from the oppressive life at the court. The woodland, with the tall, elegant tree trunks and the mushrooms springing from the ground, is a beautiful setting for the scene. The inscription written in German in the upper part of the canvas speaks of the story of an old gray-haired King who was married to a young, beautiful Queen, and there was also a Page who had blonde hair and carried the Queen’s silk train. The Queen and the Page loved each other too much and had to die. This vision of love, exceedingly idealized and romantic, tinged with melancholy, tender, and tragedy is typical for the late Medieval romance age, which Marianne Stokes is trying to evoke.
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