The Oval Portrait

The Oval Portrait. The actual portrait of the wife that eventually killed her.

By moving the cnadelabra, the narrator notices the oval portrait and reads the fateful tale of its creation.

The Artist's Book that contains the fatefule tale of the oval portrait's creation.

The Oval Portrait is a short story by Edgar Allen Poe about a man who stays at a Chateau for a night to rest and heal from an injury. When trying to sllep he starts reading a book about the art in the room, and upon  further examination see a portrait of a beautiful woman. According to the book, the portrait was of the painters wife, and he incessantly strived for so much perfection in the painting that it eventually took her life.