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The Holy Grail
Original price was: $518.00.$259.00Current price is: $259.00.
Artist: Johannes Adam Simon Oertel
A luminous 1877 oil painting by Johannes Adam Simon Oertel showing angels holding the glowing chalice of the Holy Grail against a dark, celestial ground.
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Johannes Adam Simon Oertel’s The Holy Grail (1877) is a small devotional oil on canvas held today by the Harvard Art Museums’ Fogg Museum, part of the Bequest of Mrs. William Hayes Fogg. The canvas is signed and dated by the artist in the lower right, ‘Johannes A. Oertel / 1877, N.Y.’ The composition centers on a group of angels set within a dark, atmospheric sky, gathered around a radiant chalice — the Holy Grail — whose glow becomes the sole source of light in the scene. The surrounding darkness throws the luminous vessel into sharp relief, giving the picture a hushed, reverent mood typical of Oertel’s religious subjects painted after he entered the Episcopal priesthood.
Our reproduction is a hand-painted oil-on-canvas recreation, not a printed copy. A trained artist works layer by layer to rebuild Oertel’s composition, matching the deep, velvety background tones against the warm glow of the grail and the soft modeling of the angelic figures. Brushwork is applied by hand to echo the original’s texture and light effects, so the piece reads as a genuine oil painting rather than a flat photographic image.
- Medium: hand-painted oil on canvas
- Based on the 1877 original by Johannes Adam Simon Oertel
- Available in a range of sizes to suit your wall
- Individually painted by a skilled studio artist, not mass-printed
- Ready to frame or hang as a gallery-style canvas
This reproduction suits collectors of 19th-century American religious painting, fans of Arthurian and Grail imagery, or anyone drawn to Oertel’s quiet, glowing devotional style.
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