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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.
The Spanish painter Diego Velázquez, the leading artist of the Spanish Golden Age, was born in 1599. Son of the notary Juan Rodriguez de Silva and Jerónima Velázquez, from Portugal, he was raised in modest circumstances. Showing great talent since his early years, he became an apprentice of Francisco Pacheco. His first paintings were bodegones, kitchen scenes drawn with realism, and with still-life. One of his masterpieces is Old Woman Frying Eggs, drawn with perfection and with the usage of the chiaroscuro technique, with high contrast between the dark and light tones separating the background from the main characters and objects.
One of the first oil paintings from Diego Velázquez, The Peasants at the Table, also known as the Farmer's Lunch or Almuerzo de Campesinos, was painted in 1618. Depicting a day to day scene, the artist portrayed a father and son at the table, eating their lunch while their employee serves wine to the oldest.
The boy is drawn telling his father a story while he gestures. He wears common clothes from the XVII century, a baggy brown garment on top of a white shirt, with a metallic accessory on the neck. The young man has a mustache and displays a serious expression. His mouth is open, and his eyes are fixed at the senior, who looks with attention to the young man.
The father displays wrinkles on his forehead and in the corner of his eyes. Part of his beard is white, and his eyes appear tired, all these details represent the man's age. The elder is drawn wearing better clothes and is reaching his hands to get the class of wine from the servant, without losing eye contact with the son.
The maid is concentrated on the glass she is serving. Using a white hat, the woman has blonde hair and a delicate face. On the one hand, she holds a clay jar and a fine glass cup with the other. In the table, Diego Velázquez, influenced by Caravaggio, used a natural approach to enforce the realism of the scene. White silk covers the table, with fantastic detail in the folds. There are still-life objects represented on the table, like a piece of bread in the center, a fish inside a white plate, a carrot, a copper vessel, and a lemon.
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If you have any request to alter your reproduction of Peasants at the Table (El Almuerzo) c. 1620, you must email us after placing your order and we'll have an artist contact you. If you have another image of Peasants at the Table (El Almuerzo) c. 1620 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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