Pyramus and Thisbe

Name: Pyramus and Thisbe
Brand: ByMuseum
SKU: BM4853
Price: 259.00 USD
Availability: InStock

Original price was: $518.00.Current price is: $259.00.

Artist: Grien Hans Baldung

A hand-painted replica of Pyramus and Thisbe by Baldung, rendering the fatal meeting of the Ovidian lovers in expressive gesture and charged colour, painted to order in oil on canvas.

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Painted by hand to order on premium canvas. Frames are chosen separately on the product page.

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SKU: BM4853 Category: Grien Hans Baldung

Pyramus and Thisbe by Grien Hans Baldung - hand-painted oil reproduction

Description

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Two figures meet beneath a darkened sky, their bodies angled toward each other in a moment that the eye reads instantly as catastrophe rather than reunion. A sword lies close to the fallen form of Pyramus, and Thisbe reaches or recoils, her drapery caught mid-motion as though the paint itself refuses to settle. The landscape behind them is spare, letting the collision of gesture and colour carry the entire emotional weight of the scene.

About Pyramus and Thisbe

The story comes from the Metamorphoses of Ovid, where two lovers kept apart by feuding families arrange a secret meeting, only to have a chain of misread signs end in a double death beneath a mulberry tree. Hans Baldung Grien, working within the German Renaissance and shaped by his early years alongside Durer, returns again and again to subjects where passion and mortality sit close together, and this mythological pairing gave him exactly the kind of charged material he favoured. The figures are elongated and animated in a way that owes something to late Gothic drama as much as to classical restraint.

What holds the composition together is how deliberately colour and gesture are made to argue with each other. Flesh tones are pushed toward pallor in places and heat in others, drapery folds catch light unevenly, and the brushwork, even filtered through reproduction, still carries a nervous energy that keeps the eye moving between the two figures rather than resting. This is a painter more interested in emotional temperature than in tidy narrative illustration, and it shows in every passage of the scene.

The hand-painted reproduction

At ByMuseum, a trained artist repaints this composition entirely by hand in oil on canvas, working from the original palette and reconstructing the brushwork and surface texture rather than reproducing it mechanically. The result is a genuine oil painting reproduction, a hand-painted replica built layer by layer the way the original was made, so that the raised texture of the paint and the depth of colour are things you can actually see up close, not something printed flat onto a surface. Hung in a study, a library corner, or anywhere that takes low, warm evening light, it holds attention without demanding it, the kind of picture that changes mood slightly depending on the hour you catch it.

Hand-painted oil on canvas, not a printed reproduction
Available in multiple sizes to suit your wall
Gallery-ready presentation for immediate hanging
Certificate of authenticity included with every order
90 day returns with a full refund or a free replacement, no restocking fee

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Each ByMuseum artwork is a hand-painted oil painting reproduction created by trained artists on high-quality cotton canvas. Every piece is reviewed, finished, and packed according to the framing option you select.

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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.

For safe shipping, framing is available up to a maximum size. Larger sizes will automatically disable the frame option.

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Choose “Stretched” to receive your canvas mounted on wooden stretcher bars — perfect if you’ll frame it later or display it as-is.

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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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Pyramus and Thisbe

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