Pollice Verso by Jean-Leon Gerome 100% Hand Painted Oil Painting Reproduction
1879.63 € – 2282.43 €
Painting Features
- 100% Hand Painted Museum Quality Reproduction Painted by Experienced Artist
- Canvas edges: Extra white edges about 2 inches (5 cm) for stretching in addition to the specified painting size
- Comes as unstretched, rolled canvas (in durable cardboard or plastic tube)
- Medium: High quality Oil paint on Canvas
- Canvas: High Quality Durable Artist Linen Canvas
- Format: Landscape
- Signature: Unsigned
Order Processing Time (working time that is necessary for our artist to reproduce painting excluding delivery time)
- Ready to Ship in 4-8 weeks
Original Painting Information
- Artist Name: Jean-Leon Gerome
- Artist Age: 79 (11 May 1824 – 10 January 1904)
- Artist Nationality: French
- Date / Origin: 1872
- Art Movement: Academic
- Subject: Figurative, Historical
| PAINTING SIZE: | 30 x 45 in, 76 x 114 cm, 32 x 48 in, 81 x 122 cm, 34 x 50 in, 86 x 127 cm, 38 x 56 in, 97 x 142 cm, 40 x 60 in, 102 x 152 cm |
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PAINTING DESCRIPTION
Pollice Verso (from Latin: with a turned thumb) is an 1872 painting by French artist Jean-Léon Gérôme, featuring the eponymous Roman gesture directed to the winning gladiator.
The thumbs-down gesture in the painting is given by spectators at the Colosseum, including the Vestals, to the victorious murmillo, while the defeated retiarius raises two fingers to plead for mercy. The painting was an inspiration for the 2000 film Gladiator, where Commodus holds out a raised thumb to spare the film’s hero, Maximus.
Along with gladiators, Vestals, and spectators, the picture shows the emperor in his box. Like many historical or ethnographic paintings of the era, Pollice Verso piqued the prurient interest and indulged the voyeurism of viewers while allowing them to feel a sense of moral superiority over another (previous, non-Christian) culture.
Alexander Turney Stewart purchased the painting from Gérôme at a price of 80,000 francs, setting a new record for the artist, and exhibited it in New York City. It is now in the Phoenix Art Museum in Arizona.
ADDITIONAL INFORMATION
You are buying museum quality hand painted oil painting reproduction that will be created by experienced artist after you place an order.
Please notice that painting listing display picture is not a picture of actual reproduction that you will receive but it will look very close to original artwork (display picture is of original artwork). Your individual museum quality oil painting reproduction will be created after you place your order.
Order Process
1st – You place an order on your desired painting reproduction and send payment
2nd – After payment is cleared, we immediately begin a painting process
3rd – After painting is finished, usually it takes about 2-4 weeks, we will contact you via e-mail and send some pictures of the reproduction painting to agree on reproduction quality or some small final additions and adjustments if necessary
4th – Right after we agree on final painting quality and it is sufficiently dry, we will safely dispatch the painting and provide tracking information
Please notice that this painting does not come with a frame and will not be stretched, it comes in rolled canvas form and there are about 2 inches (5 cm) white borders left on all sides for stretching. Painting will be unsigned.
Painting will be packaged as a rolled canvas in a sturdy cardboard or plastic tube for safe and secure delivery. Parcel will be dispatched and shipped from European Union (EU) via fast and reliable shipping service and tracking information will be provided.
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