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The Baleful Head
Original price was: $518.00.$259.00Current price is: $259.00.
Artist: Edward Burne-Jones
Own The Baleful Head by Edward Burne-Jones as a hand-painted oil reproduction, its mirrored Medusa and cool Pre-Raphaelite palette rebuilt stroke by stroke on canvas.
Description
Description
A mirror catches a severed head, and within its curved surface the serpent locks of Medusa seem to writhe even in reflection, an image folded inside an image. That single passage of quiet, terrible invention is where this picture holds the eye, long before the wider scene of Perseus and Andromeda resolves around it.
About Baleful Head
Burne-Jones built the composition on restraint rather than spectacle. Andromeda leans toward the mirror that Perseus holds steady before her, and the two figures form a closed, vertical arrangement that keeps the violence of the myth at one remove, seen only as a reflected image rather than acted out directly. The drapery falls in long, deliberate folds, echoing the elongated grace that runs through the whole of his mature figure painting, and the palette stays cool and restrained, built from silvered greys, pale flesh tones, and the dull gleam of armour, so that colour never competes with the psychological tension of the scene.
The painting belongs to the sequence Burne-Jones made from the Perseus legend in the later years of his career, when his work had moved decisively away from anecdote and toward a kind of suspended, dreamlike stillness. Light falls evenly rather than dramatically, softening edges and giving the figures the composed, almost sculptural quality that collectors associate with his late Pre-Raphaelite manner. It is this combination of mythic subject and controlled, meditative handling that has kept the picture a genuinely famous artwork within the Pre-Raphaelite canon, still studied for how much unease it carries within such a quiet arrangement of figures.
ByMuseum recreates this composition as a hand-painted oil on canvas, worked by trained painters who study the original palette and rebuild it stroke by stroke rather than reproducing it as a flat image. The result is an oil painting reproduction with real paint depth: raised impasto where the brush has doubled back on itself, the visible weave of the canvas beneath thin passages of colour, and the kind of surface variation that only comes from pigment applied by hand. For a buyer who looks closely at condition and craftsmanship, this is a painted object with its own texture and history in the making, not a flat copy of one.
The hand-painted reproduction
What continues to hold attention in this image is its restraint, the way horror is only ever glimpsed sideways, in a mirror, and never shown directly. Owning a hand-painted version of a composition built on that kind of patient, considered invention brings something of its discipline into a room, a version made slowly, by hand, in the same spirit as the original.
- Hand-painted oil on canvas, built up in genuine brushwork and layered pigment
- Available in multiple sizes to suit the wall it will hang on
- Gallery-ready presentation, finished for display straight from arrival
- Certificate of authenticity included with every reproduction
- Painted to order in 2 to 3 weeks, then delivered in 5 to 7 days
PRODUCT INFORMATION
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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Real brushwork, layered oil paint, and durable pigments on museum-quality canvas.
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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.
Stretched Canvas
Choose “Stretched” to receive your canvas mounted on wooden stretcher bars — perfect if you’ll frame it later or display it as-is.
Gallery Wrap
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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We ship with UPS, FedEx, or DHL straight to your door. You’ll receive a tracking number as soon as your order leaves our studio. Typical delivery is 4–5 business days after dispatch; large, framed, or stretched pieces may take longer depending on the safest shipping route.
Unframed canvases are protected with a film, carefully rolled, and secured inside a rigid shipping tube.
Stretched, Gallery Wrapped, and Framed paintings are wrapped, cushioned with foam protection, and boxed for safe transit.
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