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Behemoth and Leviathan
Original price was: $599.00.$299.00Current price is: $299.00.
Artist: William Blake
Behemoth and Leviathan by William Blake sets two colossal creatures from the Book of Job in firm, sculptural contour and dramatic colour, now offered as a museum quality hand-painted oil reproduction.
Description
Description
The proportions of this composition are close to square, a format that keeps the eye moving laterally across the picture rather than travelling upward, and that choice governs how the work should be hung: at a height where the viewer meets the two creatures on level ground, neither looking up in awe nor down in dismissal. Within that frame, Behemoth and Leviathan occupy nearly the full field, land beast and sea beast set in confrontation or parallel display, their bulk pressing against the edges of a subdued cosmic setting that offers almost no relief.
About Behemoth and Leviathan
The subject is drawn from the Book of Job, where God summons these two creatures as proof of a power beyond human measure, and Blake reads them as embodiments of the outer limits of natural and spiritual force. Rather than softening the fantastical into atmosphere, he holds every form in firm, sculptural contour, so that Behemoth and Leviathan read less as apparitions than as bodies with weight and edge. Colour is used to amplify rather than describe, pushing the sense of primal confrontation past anything a naturalistic palette could carry.
The image belongs to a sequence of illustrations for Job that occupies a central, philosophically demanding place in the late work of Blake, a project he returned to with unusual sustained attention. Seen this way, the picture is less an isolated fantasy than one plate in an argument about suffering, power and revelation, and its firmness of line is part of that argument. A museum quality hand-painted oil painting reproduction carries that same exacting draftsmanship and tonal contrast into the layered depth of oil colour, built up on canvas by a trained painter working from the original palette and preserving the visible brushwork of the source image, so the object on the wall is a painted surface rather than a printed one.
The hand-painted reproduction
A picture this exacting suits a reader of Blake as much as a collector of Romantic subjects, and it holds its own in a study or a library where its scale and directness can be met at close range rather than glanced at in passing.
- Hand-painted oil on canvas, not a print
- Available in multiple sizes
- Gallery-ready presentation
- Certificate of authenticity included
- Free worldwide shipping, with no shipping charge to any country
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Unframed — Rolled in Tube
Your artwork is painted on premium cotton canvas, then shipped safely rolled in a rigid tube with extra blank canvas border — ready for stretching or framing locally.
Framed — Ready to Hang
Select a handcrafted frame and we’ll deliver your painting fully assembled, protected, and ready to hang.
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Stretched Canvas
Choose “Stretched” to receive your canvas mounted on wooden stretcher bars — perfect if you’ll frame it later or display it as-is.
Gallery Wrap
Gallery Wrap is a deeper, 1.5" style stretcher. The canvas wraps around the sides and is stapled on the back for a clean, modern, frameless look.
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