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A Huguenot, on St. Bartholomew’s Day
Original price was: $599.00.$299.00Current price is: $299.00.
Artist: John Everett Millais
A Huguenot, on St. Bartholomews Day by John Everett Millais, recreated as a hand-painted oil painting reproduction with the same soft modelling and botanical detail as the 1852 original.
Description
Description
The Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood set out to paint with the clarity and conviction of early Italian art, and few canvases make that ambition as legible as A Huguenot, on St. Bartholomews Day reproduction can for a modern room. Painted by John Everett Millais in 1851 and 1852, the picture takes a single gesture, a hand reaching to tie a white armband, and makes it carry an entire history of religious violence and private conscience.
About Huguenot St Bartholomews Day Reproduction
The scene is drawn from Meyerbeer opera Les Huguenots, though Millais strips away the theatre and leaves two figures alone in a walled garden. A Catholic girl tries to fasten the white badge that would mark her Protestant lover as safe from the coming massacre of 1572; he holds her wrist and gently refuses it, choosing his faith over his life. Millais painted the brick wall behind them from an actual wall near Ewell in Surrey, working leaf by leaf through the ivy and lichen with the same attention he gave to Ophelia, shown at the same Royal Academy exhibition in 1852. The flowers at their feet are botanically exact, each bloom identifiable, and the faces, modelled on his friend Arthur Lempriere and on Anne Ryan, are built from soft, close observation rather than generalised sentiment. The white of the armband sits as the one bright passage in a composition otherwise held in greens and umbers, and it pulls the eye back to it again and again.
The hand-painted reproduction
ByMuseum artists repaint this composition entirely by hand in oil on canvas, working from the original palette and matching the layered brushwork that gives the lichen its texture and the fabric its weight. This is a museum quality oil painting reproduction built stroke by stroke rather than printed, so the surface carries real depth of colour and the slight ridges of paint that a reproduction on paper cannot hold. Living with it, the eye tends to settle first on the hands, then drift to the brick, then return to the white cloth, the same passage that anchored the picture when it first hung at the Royal Academy.
- Hand-painted oil on canvas, not a printed copy
- Available in a range of sizes to suit your wall
- Gallery-ready presentation, unframed or with a museum-style frame
- Certificate of authenticity included with every order
- Painted to order in 2 to 3 weeks, then delivered in 5 to 7 days
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