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Saint Margaret of Antioch
Original price was: $518.00.$259.00Current price is: $259.00.
Artist: Francisco de Zurbarán
Zurbarán disguises a fourth-century martyr as a shepherdess standing over the dragon she survived. This Saint Margaret of Antioch reproduction is hand-painted oil on canvas.
Description
Description
A young woman stands in a landscape dressed as a countrywoman, in a lambskin jacket and a straw hat set at a jaunty angle, a shepherd crook in one hand and a prayer book in the other. She is Saint Margaret of Antioch, and this Saint Margaret of Antioch reproduction brings into the home a fourth-century martyr reimagined by Zurbarán as a working shepherdess of rural Spain, her sainthood announced only by the dragon coiled at her feet.
About Saint Margaret of Antioch Reproduction
The dragon is the key to the whole picture. Legend holds that Margaret was swallowed by a demonic serpent during her imprisonment and emerged unharmed, and Zurbarán paints the creature in close, raking light that picks out its scales, its narrow eyes, and the curve of its fangs. The same light falls on Margaret, giving her skin a porcelain evenness and her clothing a weight and sheen that make the costume as persuasive as the miracle behind her. A woven saddlebag of the kind carried by peasant traders hangs over her arm, its pattern built up in small distinct strokes that contrast with the broad, even planes of her jacket.
The painting belongs to the sequence of virgin-martyr portraits Zurbarán produced through the 1630s, pictures that dress holy women in the fashionable dress of the day rather than in traditional robes, so that piety and elegance sit in the same figure without contradiction. The restraint is deliberate: Margaret does not look triumphant or afraid, only composed, and that composure, held against the violence implied by the dragon, is what has kept the picture under long study since it left the hand of Zurbarán.
The hand-painted reproduction
Owning a version of this scene means owning a hand-painted oil on canvas rather than a printed copy. A trained painter works from the original palette to rebuild the luminous skin tones, the woven texture of the saddlebag, and the scaled hide of the dragon stroke by stroke, so each fine art reproduction carries real brushwork and the surface depth of an oil painting reproduction rather than a flat printed surface. The canvas takes on the weight of the original Baroque picture because it is built the same way, layer over layer, rather than printed in one pass.
- Hand-painted in oil on artist-grade canvas
- Available in multiple sizes
- Gallery-ready presentation
- Certificate of authenticity included
- Painted to order in 2 to 3 weeks, then delivered in 5 to 7 days
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