The Return from the Hunt
$47.00
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- 380g/m² cotton canvas — certified museum quality
- Solid wood stretcher bar with 0.75” gallery wrap
- HD Giclée print — colour-true to the original
- Ready to hang — hanging hardware included
The Return from the Hunt, painted around 1494–1500 by Piero di Cosimo, belongs to a pair of panels (alongside "A Hunting Scene") that once decorated a Florentine room devoted to the contemplation of early human history, inspired by the Roman poet Lucretius's account of civilization's violent beginnings. Piero's vision of humanity's primitive past is anything but idyllic — a strange, feral world of half-human, half-animal figures caught between struggle and triumph.
Piero di Cosimo was among the most eccentric and imaginative painters of the Florentine Renaissance, better known to contemporaries for his strange habits and wild inventions than for religious conformity, and these panels reveal an artist more interested in myth, fantasy, and the primal origins of society than in the classical harmony pursued by his Florentine peers.
Held in the collection of The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, this masterwork is presented here as a premium stretched canvas reproduction, printed on museum-quality matte canvas and hand-wrapped around a solid 0.75-inch gallery wrap frame — ready to hang and built to last.
| Artist | Piero di Cosimo |
| Year | ca. 1494–1500 |
| Medium | Tempera and oil, transferred to Masonite |
| Collection | The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York |
| Movement | Renaissance |
| Available sizes | |
| Small | 40 × 30 cm (16″ × 12″) |
| Medium | 50 × 40 cm (20″ × 16″) |
| Large | 90 × 60 cm (36″ × 24″) |
| All sizes include a 0.75" gallery wrap. Ready to hang — no framing required. | |
