The Reluctant Bride or The Hesitant Fiancée by Auguste Toulmouche was painted in 1866. Artist Auguste Toulmouche seems to have struck on a timeless theme: women being annoyed about the shit we have to ...

Auguste Toulmouche was a French painter known for his luxurious genre paintings of upper middle class Parisian women in domestic scenes. His work is associated with the academic realist movement. Born ...