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FRAMING INFORMATION
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.
Diego Velázquez' 1656 painting Las Meninas is truly an enigmatic painting. The high water-mark of the Spanish Golden Age, toying with the appearance of reality and the creation of illusion, Las Meninas brokers an uncertain relationship between subject and viewer. This complex painting has been much analysed, and features the daughter of the King of Spain surrounded by her retinue, all huddled together and oblivious to the artist. Currently housed at the Museo del Prado in Madrid, Las Meninas is a self-portrait, a figurative reproduction of the King's daughter, the Infanta Margarita Teresa, a court genre scene, capturing the fascinating visage of the court dwarfs Maribárbola and Nicolasito Pertusato, and a regal portrait — the mirror on the back wall reflects the looming figures of the King and Queen. One of the many subjects of the painting, the young Infanta, cuts a captivating figure. She is self-aware, caught in a fleeting performance of adulthood, prefiguring the life that is ahead of her. The court dwarves, employed as figures of amusement, appear sullen and uncomfortable at their depiction. Yet most importantly there is an air of ominousness, a distinctive presence of danger that is very hard to pinpoint and even more difficult to describe.
Family life appears to have been interrupted by the presence of the painter, and a uncomfortable energy permeates the space as each member of the retinue gazes inquisitively in a different direction. Velázquez' reproduction of this contested space is like a puzzle set within a visual labyrinth, with the unknown figure at the door hinting at the mysterious and lonely expanse of the palace beyond the sitters. This mysterious work brims with an inquisitive energy and is an allegory of the analytical nature of art and infused with the ever-problematic and ever-contested space of vision.
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Important Notes About Your Painting:
If you have any request to alter your reproduction of Las Meninas, you must email us after placing your order and we'll have an artist contact you. If you have another image of Las Meninas 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.
- Ordered without a frame, it will be delivered in protective tube within 21-28 business days.
- When ordering the painting framed - allow additional 5-7 days for delivery. The painting will arrive ready to hang.
- Every painting is painted by an experienced artist.
- No printing or digital imaging techniques are used.
- 100% hand painted oil painting on artist grade canvas.
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- Hand crafted means unique to every owner. Each canvas reproduction may vary slightly in brush details due to the nature of being hand painted, so no two paintings are the same.
- For those customers who appreciate quality and want to own an artist's work as it was meant to be enjoyed we are here for you.
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.
If, in the unlikely event you were dissatisfied with the painting after reviewing it in person, it can be returned for a full refund for up to 365 days after delivery.
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.
1st Art Gallery provides a full warranty covering manufacturing and material defects for paintings purchased from our website. The warranty covers damage for normal use. Damage caused by incidents such as accidents or inappropriate use are not covered.
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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