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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.
Monet's 1873 canvas Boulevard Des Capucines was a dynamic reproduction of city-life in the late XIX century when the rapidly modernizing forces of French industrial capitalism were both destroying and quickly reinventing the concept of social space.
Monet's group of like-minded painters, the Impressionists, placed precedence in the artist's visual and experiential interpretation of what was before them. In a world so rapidly changing their canvases were characterized by the movement of life and time across seemingly static subjects and beings. In Boulevard Des Capucines Monet deals with a subject familiar to the Impressionists and carries a theme also addressed in Auguste Renoir's 1872 canvas Le Pont Neuf Paris.
At the time of painting the ancient city was being transformed by what became known as the Haussmanization of Paris, named after the controversial urban planner Baron Von Haussmann. Tired of the crumbling buildings and winding alleys that were tricky to attack whenever a barricade spring up, Emperor Napoleon III modernized the cluster of streets into the orderly and epic tree-lined boulevards we know today.
Monet's atmospheric perspective highlights the blurring of individuals with their cold, emotionless surroundings, fusing into a cacophony of light, sound, and movement. Boulevard Des Capucines portrays the frenetic pace of urban Paris and captures the wildly divergent and unequal conditions of modernity. Painted from the window of the renowned photographer Nadar's studio, Monet's impressionistic reproduction embodies the fragmentary experience of a bustling street, segmenting the blur of movement with sharp brushwork. The cold atmosphere of a city's winter day is captured with Monet's choice of color palette. The white-blue sky is still, contrasting to the busy street.
The decentralized perspective takes influence from Japanese woodcut prints like that of the artist Hiroshige that would influence much of late XIX century art. Comparable to a single frame of a shot filmed with a mobile camera, Monet himself seems to be in a state of movement and flux — almost as if he is moving his viewpoint between brush-strokes. This monumental work of pre-modernism reflects the truly visionary work of the Impressionist movement. This masterpiece is an example of the influence photography had on art — especially painting. Although the rise of photography made artists realize they did not need to paint in a realistic manner, for technology could do that, they also found some aesthetic qualities of photography interesting, reproducing that in their work.
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If you have any request to alter your reproduction of Boulevard Des Capucines, you must email us after placing your order and we'll have an artist contact you. If you have another image of Boulevard Des Capucines 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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When you receive the painting; you are free to return it for more revisions or else for a full refund minus our actual shipping cost -- which is, on average, $35 per painting.
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Depending on the degree of damage to the warranted painting, it will either be repaired or replaced. This warranty service is provided free of charge.
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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.