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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.
Léon Bonnat's Samson's Youth, painted in 1891, is an imagined reproduction of the dramatic youth of the tragic Biblical hero. Bonnat, a painter schooled in the styles of the Spanish masters Velázquez, Murillo and Zurbarán and student of the Paris Ecole des Beaux-Arts, made his first appearance at the Paris Salon in 1857. Gaining popular prominence in Napoleon III's Third Republic, Bonnat made a name for himself painting dignified portraits of well-heeled sitters, primarily in the Realist style popular in France at the time. His most prestigious commission came in the form of a cycle of works that to this day decorate the interior of the spectacular Panthéon in Paris.
Samson's Youth, appearing rather late in the artist's career, is a vision of a formative moment in the life of one of the early leaders of the Biblical Israelites. In his youth Samson was allocated superhuman strength to defeat the enemies of his people, and was cursed with two fatal flaws; his love of women and the fact that his strength derived from his hair. Demonstrating his ability to perform these supernatural feats, Samson killed a lion in his youth and Bonnat capitalizes on this moment of drama to skilfully render the sinewy and rippling contortions of man and beast. Modelled upon a classical ideal, Bonnat's work demonstrates the teaching preferences of the French Academy, who encouraged depicting physical struggle through the lens of mythic and legendary figures. Indeed, the topic of mortal figures displaying qualities of immortality, and in some respects gaining it, was a preferred topic for the judges of the Prix de Rome. With a shrewd eye for the tastes of the market and the ability to conjure startling reproductions of classical lore, Bonnat's was the model career of a master draughtsman and Academic trailblazer.
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If you have any request to alter your reproduction of Samson's youth 1891, you must email us after placing your order and we'll have an artist contact you. If you have another image of Samson's youth 1891 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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