Bacchus

Description

Bacchus hangs close to life size, a canvas modest enough in scale that the reclining god seems to sit at arm reach, his goblet extended into the space of the room rather than displayed at a remove. This Bacchus reproduction keeps that intimate proportion, the kind of scale that asks a viewer to stand near rather than step back, the way the original does in its own gallery setting.

About Bacchus Oil Painting Reproduction

Painted about 1596 for the early patron of Caravaggio, Cardinal Francesco Maria del Monte, the picture takes the god of wine down from Olympus and puts a flushed, ordinary young man in his place, vine leaves pinned loosely into his hair, grapes resting against his temple. He reclines on a couch draped in white linen, one hand working the drawstring of his robe loose, the other holding out a shallow glass of wine toward the viewer, an offer that feels almost conversational. His face is soft and a little heavy, turned to meet the eye of whoever stands in front of him, and his fingernails are left dirty, a small refusal of the ideal body that painters before him would have cleaned up without a thought.

On the stone table in front of him sits a glass carafe of red wine and a bowl of fruit, apples and grapes and a half-split pomegranate, painted with the same patient attention Caravaggio gave to altarpieces and street scenes alike. Light falls from the upper left and settles on flesh, glass, and the curve of the carafe, where a faint reflection repeats the window of the room. The canvas was lost to view for centuries and came to light uncatalogued in storerooms at the Uffizi in 1913, after which it stayed in Florence.

The hand-painted reproduction

Painters working for ByMuseum study the original surface before setting brush to canvas, matching the warm, slightly sallow flesh tones and the greens of the vine leaves stroke by stroke rather than printing them. The result is a hand-painted oil painting reproduction built up in layers of real oil colour, with the ridges and soft edges of individual brushstrokes left visible across the robe, the fruit, and the glass. Anyone who wants a fine art reproduction that reads as a painted object, with its own surface and its own hand behind it, finds that quality in the finished canvas rather than in a flat print.

• Hand-painted in oil on artist-grade canvas, brushed by a trained painter, not printed
• Available in multiple sizes to suit a study wall or a larger gallery space
• Finished and presented ready to hang
• Certificate of authenticity included with every canvas
• 90 day returns, with a full refund or a free replacement and no restocking fee