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The Funeral of the Mummy
Original price was: $518.00.$259.00Current price is: $259.00.
Artist: Frederick Arthur Bridgeman
The Funeral of the Mummy by Bridgeman, hand-painted in oil on canvas, brings a famous Orientalist procession to your wall with real pigment and visible brushwork.
Description
Description
Since it left the studio of Frederick Arthur Bridgeman, this large procession scene has been read as one of the great set pieces of nineteenth century Orientalist painting, a work that critics and collectors have returned to for its staging of ancient ritual as much as for its technical bravura. That reputation was built on decisions made at the easel, and it is worth looking again at what actually produced them.
About Funeral of the Mummy
The subject is a funeral cortege moving toward the Nile, mourners and priests arranged in a procession that Bridgeman choreographs with the discipline of a stage director rather than a documentarian. Figures nearest the viewer are rendered with particular care, their gestures and drapery carrying the emotional register of the scene, while the crowd behind thins into looser, more atmospheric handling that suggests depth without competing for attention. Light falls across the composition in a way that separates the procession from the arid landscape around it, giving the central group a warmth and clarity that the surrounding desert lacks.
Bridgeman had studied in Paris under Gerome, and the influence shows in the exacting drawing beneath the paint and in a taste for archaeological subject matter treated with theatrical seriousness. This canvas belongs to the period when he was working through material gathered on his travels in Egypt and North Africa, translating sketches and studied detail into a finished studio composition. The palette moves between ochres, dust tones, and the cooler blues and whites reserved for ceremonial dress, a contrast that does much of the work in holding the eye on the funeral party itself.
The hand-painted reproduction
A trained painter working for ByMuseum recreates this composition as a hand-painted oil painting reproduction, matching the original palette stroke by stroke and preserving the layered brushwork and surface texture that a printed copy cannot offer. Pigment is built up on artist-grade canvas the way Bridgeman would have worked it, so the raised impasto in the drapery and the softer glazes in the distance survive in the finished object. What arrives is a painted canvas, not a print, and it carries the weight and presence that a serious collector expects from an oil on canvas. Owning this famous painting in its hand-painted form means keeping something of that original discipline on your own wall, a version that ages and reads like a painting rather than a reproduction of one.
- Hand-painted oil on canvas, created stroke by stroke by a trained artist
- Available in multiple sizes to suit the wall it will hang on
- Gallery-ready presentation, finished and ready to display
- Certificate of authenticity included with every order
- 90 day returns, with a full refund or a free replacement and no restocking fee
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