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Granida and Daifilo
Original price was: $518.00.$259.00Current price is: $259.00.
Artist: Jacob Adriaensz Backer
Granida and Daifilo by Jacob Adriaensz Backer sets a Persian princess and a humble shepherd in gentle Golden Age light, painted by hand in oil for a quiet, literary presence on the wall.
Description
Description
Most of the work by Jacob Adriaensz Backer runs to portraits and single figures, painted with a smooth, glowing finish that made him one of the sought-after portraitists of Amsterdam. Granida and Daifilo steps away from that pattern. Here Backer works with a pair of figures locked in a story, and the shift from portrait stillness to narrative tenderness gives the painting a different kind of warmth.
About Granida and Daifilo
The subject comes from the pastoral play by Pieter Corneliszoon Hooft, a tale in which a Persian princess wanders from her court and meets a shepherd in the open air. Backer sets the two close together, the princess in fine dress, the shepherd plain, and lets the contrast in cloth and bearing carry the story rather than any dramatic gesture. The landscape around them is soft and generalised, more a stage than a place, which keeps the eye on the meeting of the two figures.
What holds the composition together is skin. Backer paints flesh with a silky, almost translucent finish, and the light falls across both faces in the same gentle way, so that rank falls away and the two figures meet as equals for a moment. The colour is warm and restrained, browns and golds set against a paler ground, and the brushwork stays smooth even where the paint is thick, a hallmark of his years working near the circle of Rembrandt before he found his own, calmer voice.
A fine art reproduction of this painting is built by hand, not printed. A trained painter works in oil on canvas, matching the warm palette of Backer stroke by stroke and keeping the soft transitions of light across the skin that make the original so quiet and direct. The result is a genuine oil painting reproduction, with real paint sitting on real canvas, the texture visible up close the way it would be on the work it copies.
The hand-painted reproduction
It suits a room built around calm rather than spectacle, and it works as a gift for anyone drawn to the gentler side of Dutch Golden Age painting rather than its more crowded, boisterous scenes.
- 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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