Episode from the Story of Griselda

This panel originally formed part of a larger painting in horizontal format, which undoubtedly adorned the front of a cassone (wedding chest). The subject depicted comes from the first part of the “Griselda novella” in Giovanni Boccaccio’s Decameron. On this panel, on the left, we see Gualtieri, the marquis of Saluzzo take to the road on the day of his wedding. At the centre he meets the unsuspecting, who is carrying water home from the well. On the right we see the wedding take place before the house of Griselda’s family.