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The Magic Circle Blue version
Original price was: $518.00.$259.00Current price is: $259.00.
Artist: John William Waterhouse
Waterhouse’s smaller, highly finished 1886 repetition of The Magic Circle, showing the sorceress in a blue robe casting her fiery ritual circle at dusk.
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This is the smaller, exquisitely finished 1886 repetition of Waterhouse’s celebrated Royal Academy showpiece, painted at roughly half the scale of the monumental Tate canvas and kept ever since in a private collection. As was customary for successful Victorian exhibition pictures, Waterhouse produced this refined smaller variant, probably for a private patron, alongside his large-scale original.
- A sorceress stands barefoot on scorched earth in a blue gown patterned with dancing pagan warriors, tracing a flaming magic circle around her cauldron with a wand.
- A curve-bladed knife is held in her other hand, while a serpent coils around her neck and a toad crouches nearby, all traditional emblems of the occult.
- Crows gather at her feet, and poppies and herbs, offerings for her incantation, are tucked into her belt and piled beside the fire.
- Behind her, a barren evening landscape rises to a cliff topped with a citadel or tombs, and two shrouded figures watch silently from within a cave.
Our studio artists reproduce this composition entirely by hand in oils on canvas, layering pigment to recreate Waterhouse’s smoky blues, glowing firelight, and richly textured drapery rather than mechanically printing the image. Every reproduction is painted to order by a trained oil painter, stretched on canvas, and checked against the original composition for tone, detail, and proportion before shipping, making it a genuine hand-painted work of art rather than a print.
This smaller, more intimate version rewards close viewing, revealing details of the sorceress’s ritual that are easy to overlook in reproductions of the larger Tate painting.
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