Maria, wearing a black mask, whispers to Rachele that her lover has betrayed her in this artist's Vengeance is Sworn, painted as a triptych along with The Secret Accusation and A Rival's Revenge.  
In one portrait, this artist painted his frequent patron Conte Francesco Teodoro Arese in chains.  A woman modeled on the dancer Carlotta Chabert stands in a shallow pool and holds one of the title animals in her left hand in this artist's Venus Playing with Two Doves.  Maria, wearing a black mask, whispers to Rachele that her lover has betrayed her in this artist's Vengeance is Sworn, painted as a triptych along with The Secret Accusation and A Rival's Revenge.  The Countess Teresa Borri Stampa commissioned a painting by this artist where three men have just stabbed the tyrant (*) Galeazzo Maria Sforza; that painting, located in the church of Santo Stefano, is his pro-Carbonari painting, The Conspiracy of Lampugnani.  The man in his best known painting places his left leg on a staircase and embraces a woman in blue, perhaps symbolizing France.  For 10 points, name this Italian Romantic painter of The Kiss.
In one portrait, this artist painted his frequent patron Conte Francesco Teodoro Arese in chains.  
Francesco Hayez 