Revenge Triptych

The Revenge Triptych (Italian - Trittico della Vendetta) is a set of three mid-19th-century oil-on-canvas paintings by Francesco Hayez.

It shows Maria's friend Rachel advising her to use political denunciation for vengeance on her lover.

It shows the third episode, Maria repenting of her actions and trying to stop her denunciation being delivered.

Its present location is unknown, though a late copy now in the Villa Carlotta was probably made after the original's success at the Brera exhibition of 1853.

[1] It was also copied as a bronze bas-relief for the base of Francesco Barzaghi's monument to Hayez on piazza di Brera in Milan.

Francesco Hayez, Consiglio alla vendetta, (1851), 237x178cm.
Francesco Hayez, Accusa segreta, (1847–1848), 153x120cm.
Francesco Hayez, La vendetta di una rivale, (1853), 55x40cm.