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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.


John Singer Sargent’s startling and cinematic 1882 canvas El Jaleo, lit from a mysterious source, casts a theatrical and eminently dramatic series of shadows that tower over the even more impressive gestures of the dancer, musicians, and accompanying clappers. The most flamboyant of Sargent’s early paintings, this vivid reproduction of a Spanish gypsy ensemble is made even more exuberant by the lack of barrier between the viewer and the performers. The careful articulation of light, space, and the evocation of sound makes the resonant, yet imagined, rhythms of the dance pulsate through the painting. First exhibited at the 1882 Paris Salon when Sargent was only 26, El Jaleo is deeply evocative of its times, reflecting a nineteenth-century preoccupation with the foreign, and an idealisation of the ‘other’. Artists and bohemians had idealized the world and life-view of the gypsies for some time, particularly celebrating their nomadism, close kinship ties, and rejection of organized religion. This scene, certainly informed by his 1879 journeys through Spain, saw Sargent embodying his love of Gypsy culture and a imbuing it with the hope and enthusiasm of his youth.
Created upon his return to Paris, Sargent named the painting as such to evoke the name of the dance, the jaleo de jerez, yet utilizing the more emblematic shortening jaleo, which means ruckus or hubbub. Subtitled ‘Dance of the Gypsies’ to emphasize the subject matter, this canvas is Sargent’s most intuitive work, prefiguring the mood of the post-Impressionists and even predicting the gestural and ritualistic worlds of early Modernism. The dramatic effects of light and the highly choreographed staging was studied and composed for over a year before Sargent began work. Without doubt the artist’s most ambitious work, El Jaleo is a wonderful geometric reproduction of movement.
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Important Notes About Your Painting:
If you have any request to alter your reproduction of El Jaleo, you must email us after placing your order and we'll have an artist contact you. If you have another image of El Jaleo 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.
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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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