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1st Art Gallery offers the option to receive your painting ready to hang or rolled in a tube.
Currently, for safety, we're able to ship framed paintings only up to a certain size. Once the maximum size is reached, the framing option is automatically disabled.
However, if you are interested in stretching or framing a painting larger than 24x36 inches (60x90 cm), please contact one of our customer success associates or let us know in your order notes. We will send you a catalog of our large framing styles and pricing options.
Unframed rolled canvas orders will arrive rolled inside a protective tube with an extra 1.5" white canvas on all sides so you can easily frame it locally.
Claude Oscar Monet painted the landscape The Magpie in 1868-1869, during one of the many brutal winters that were occurring in France. During this period, his patron Louis Joachim Gaudibert helped the artist and his girlfriend, Camille Doncieux, along with their newborn child, by finding them a good home.
This series of snowy and harsh winters began in 1867 and lasted for about twenty years – something that many Impressionists took advantage of, like Pierre Auguste Renoir, Paul Gauguin, Camille Pissarro, among others, portraying the landscape hundreds of time. Monet himself concluded about 140 paintings representing the effet de neige, meaning they depicted the snowscape and the effect natural light had on them. As an Impressionist, he was greatly inspired by working outdoors and on location to paint the light as he saw it – the French called it painting en plein air.
The painting The Magpie portrays a simple, everyday theme. As a modern artist, Monet went against Classic standards imposed by the Academy – one of these standards refers to subjects and considered landscapes and trivial subjects as being unworthy. Because of this, many artists turned to other influence other than the Greek culture; mainly the Japanese woodcut prints. Artists found the beauty in representing nature as they saw it, and not by idealizing it. The Japanese culture brought an idea os stillness that went against the turbulence and machinery of the modern time.
The color palette is simple and mostly white, varying in tonalities from gray-blue and violet in the shadows, along with yellow and pink in the highlights in a very subtle way. The composition is simple, resembling many other landscapes produced at the time. The forefront depicts an area of snow and a shadow cast on it by the snow-coved dark brown fence. The thin, crooked gate brings the viewer’s attention to it, especially because of the blackbird portrayed resting upon it.
Some large trees were painted in the background, with dark brown trunks and snowy tops. Behind them, Monet depicted a large house on the right corner of the canvas. On the opposite side, the trees follow into the far distance, as far as the viewer can see. The horizontal lines of the clouds in the sky represent a calm atmosphere. This painting characterizes the silence of nature after a snowstorm.
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If you have any request to alter your reproduction of The Magpie, you must email us after placing your order and we'll have an artist contact you. If you have another image of The Magpie that you would like the artist to work from, please include it as an attachment. Otherwise, we will reproduce the above image for you exactly as it is.
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Free shipping is included in the price of the painting. Once the painting is ready and dry enough to ship, we will roll it and ship it in a sturdy cardboard tube.
We always ship express via courier to ensure your order reaches you as soon as possible - normally within three business days. The total delivery time from the moment you place your order until the package is delivered to your door is normally between three to four weeks.
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You may choose to purchase your painting framed, in which case, it will arrive "ready to hang". We offer more than 20 beautiful models, all hand finished and expertly assembled by our experienced framers.
Note that for safety reasons we can only frame up to a certain size. Once the maximum size is reached the framing option is automatically disabled.
If you are planning to frame your painting yourself, use an existing frame, or frame it locally, you may choose to order your painting with a stretching service, meaning that it will arrive mounted on wooden bars.
If you're considering not framing your painting at all, you may opt for a Gallery Wrap. The term Gallery Wrap refers to the way the canvas is stretched, which is by wrapping it around thick stretcher bars, about 1.5 inch thick, with the canvas being secured to the back rather than the sides of those bars.
All orders ship with UPS, FedEx or DHL and will arrive directly to your home or office. A tracking number will be emailed to you as soon as the order leaves our studio so you can track it online. All orders ship express and usually arrive within 4-5 days from the shipping date. Due to shipping restraints, many of our framed, stretched, and oversize paintings may take 6-21 days for arrival depending on the safest route determined by the postal service.
Unframed paintings are covered with a special protective film, are gently rolled and then placed inside a strong specially designed tube.
Stretched, Gallery Wrapped and Framed paintings are covered with protective bubble wrap, separated by foam board and then carefully put into the cardboard box.