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Peter’s Betrayal
Original price was: $518.00.$299.00Current price is: $299.00.
Artist: Carl Heinrich Bloch
A half-raised hand and a face caught in firelight: Peters Betrayal by Carl Heinrich Bloch renders denial and guilt with rare psychological directness.
Description
Description
A hand raised halfway to the chest, caught between denial and confession: this is the gesture that anchors Peter’s Betrayal, and it is the detail that stays with a viewer long after the wider scene has been taken in. The firelight catching the folds of a cloak, the averted eyes of the servant girl who has just asked the question that undoes him, all of it gathers around that single unfinished motion.
About Peter’s Betrayal
Carl Heinrich Bloch sets the scene in the courtyard below the high priest palace, where Peter has followed at a distance to see what will become of the man he has followed for three years. Rather than staging the moment as a grand tableau, Bloch closes in on a handful of figures pressed together in lamplight, letting their faces carry the narrative. The apostle expression is not defiant but stricken, a man hearing his own voice betray him even as he speaks. Around him the other figures lean in with a curiosity that has nothing gentle in it, and the contrast between their idle interest and his private collapse is where the picture finds its force.
The handling of light throughout is theatrical in the best sense, a single source pulling faces and hands out of a darkness that swallows the rest of the courtyard. This belongs to the period in which Bloch was completing his major cycle of paintings depicting the life of Christ, work that made him one of the most sought-after religious painters in nineteenth-century Denmark, and it shows the same instinct for psychological truth over pious formula. Colour is kept low and warm, browns and umbers broken by the cool pallor of Peter face, so that the eye has nowhere to go but the emotion itself.
The hand-painted reproduction
ByMuseum recreates this composition as a hand-painted oil painting reproduction, worked in genuine oil on artist-grade canvas by a trained painter rather than produced through any printing process. The firelight passages, the modelling of the faces, and the subdued palette are matched by hand, so the surface carries the same visible brushwork and layered texture as the original, making it a fine art reproduction suited to serious display rather than a flat copy. Hung where the evening light falls across it, in a study, a hallway, or beside a reading chair, the painting settles into a room quietly, asking for reflection rather than attention, and rewarding it each time the light shifts across its surface.
- Hand-painted oil on canvas, not a printed reproduction
- Available in multiple sizes to suit the wall you have in mind
- Gallery-ready presentation on request
- 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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