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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.
Rembrandt’s The Return of the Prodigal Son, painted between 1661 and 1669, is a monumental painting in the history of art and stands as Rembrandt’s final canvas – flamboyantly transcending the Baroque with its psychological insight. The parable of the return of the prodigal son was a popular subject during the Renaissance, engraved by Albrecht Dürer amongst others. Rembrandt painted imagined reproductions of several elements of the story, especially the return, which he captured a number of times in his life. The Return of the Prodigal Son is an interpretation of the Christian virtue of mercy, rendered with a solemn eye, and evoking a humane, domestic warmth. Rembrandt’s alarmingly modern realism and spiritual insight is created through the expressive color-scale and brushwork, the powerful light and the almost ritualistic ceremony of the event. The father and son stand out, slightly off-center, in front of a seemingly endless expanse of darkness.
In the Biblical tale a young son who has wasted his inheritance suffers the hardships of a famine and returns home to his father. His return is celebrated by a feast which irks the older son who has worked constantly for his father without fortune or reward. The father reminds the older son that like the parable of the lost sheep, any return to the fold should be a cause for celebration. Rembrandt’s supreme reproduction of the scene is littered with references to the poverty, both material and spiritual, of both parties. Heightening the dramatic reconciliation through the hinting of a wider context, Rembrandt creates an image of forgiveness and embodies the unquestioning love of a father, whose time-worn hands stretch out towards the clinging body of the son. For an artist at the end of his life the painting is a moving evocation of a homecoming, the darkness of the path travelled illuminated by the awaiting destination and the sheltering arms of a patriarch.
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Important Notes About Your Painting:
If you have any request to alter your reproduction of The Return of the Prodigal Son c. 1669, you must email us after placing your order and we'll have an artist contact you. If you have another image of The Return of the Prodigal Son c. 1669 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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- When ordering the painting framed - allow additional 5-7 days for delivery. The painting will arrive ready to hang.
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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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