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Cincinnatus Receiving Deputies of the Senate
Original price was: $518.00.$259.00Current price is: $259.00.
Artist: Alexandre Cabanel
Alexandre Cabanel painted the Roman farmer called to power in Cincinnatus Receiving Deputies of the Senate, now offered as a hand-painted oil on canvas true to his palette and brushwork.
Description
Description
A Roman farmer summoned from his plough to save the republic: that is the moment Alexandre Cabanel set down on canvas. Cincinnatus stands before the deputies of the Senate, called from his fields to take up the power of a dictator, and the story appealed to a nineteenth century taste for old Roman virtue, for duty accepted rather than sought. It is a subject built for a painter drawn to gesture and grave dignity, and Cabanel gives it exactly that.
About Cincinnatus Receiving Deputies of the Senate
The composition holds the eye through careful spacing rather than crowding. Cincinnatus and the senators occupy a clear stage, their poses and the fall of drapery doing the work that a lesser hand might have left to ornament. Cabanel moves the viewer from the central exchange out to the edges of the scene with small shifts of emphasis, so the whole canvas reads as one continuous thought rather than a series of separate figures.
Light and colour carry the mood. Cabanel sets passages of concentrated detail, faces, hands, the texture of cloth, against broader, quieter areas of tone, and that contrast gives the picture its depth. Warm flesh tones sit against cooler shadow, and the values shift gradually enough to suggest real air and real distance rather than a flat backdrop. The picture belongs to the period when Cabanel was working at the height of academic French painting, trained in a tradition that prized drawing, finish, and a controlled, legible surface, and this canvas shows that discipline applied to a subject of civic virtue rather than to the mythological scenes for which he is often better known.
The hand-painted reproduction
The ByMuseum version of this work is painted, not printed. A trained artist works in oil on an oil on canvas reproduction, matching the palette of Cabanel stroke by stroke and rebuilding the layered surface that gives the original its depth. Brushwork stays visible, the paint carries its own slight relief, and the canvas takes light the way an oil surface takes light, not the way a printed sheet does. The result is a hand-painted object, made by a person with a brush, not a machine with ink.
- Hand-painted oil on canvas, made stroke by stroke by a trained artist
- Available in multiple sizes to suit the wall it will hang on
- Gallery-ready presentation, finished for display on arrival
- 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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