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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.
Rosa Bonheur's 1853 canvas The Horse Fair is a depiction of a horse market in Paris, and a smaller reproduction of a larger work exhibited at the Paris Salon of 1851. An 'anamalier', a genre of figurative painter which specialized in painting animals, Bonheur was a woman a full century ahead of her time. Making a lucrative career in the wholly patriarchal sphere of classical painting, Bonheur worked at a time when she was required to present a government license to wear trousers whilst in the fields sketching her animal menagerie. Independent, charismatic, and profoundly idiosyncratic, Bonheur was taught the art of painting by her father, choosing to study and paint animals exclusively from 1837. With great support and encouragement from her father and her siblings, Bonheur began to immerse herself in the peripheral elements required to be a master animalier; studying agricultural subjects , animal anatomy, and visiting slaughterhouses. Having first been exhibited at the Paris Salon of 1841, her father, two of her brothers and Bonheur herself all managed to feature in the Salon of 1848, with Bonheur winning the gold medal.
Her most enduring image, The Horse Fair, helped the affluent Bonheur to buy a farm where she kept an ever-expanding menagarie of animals. In the 1870s this trailblazing figure even began keeping lions on her estate, studying them closely to portray more accurate figurative reproductions of the beasts. The first woman artist ever to be awarded the Legion d'Honneur, Bonheur became the most prominent female artist in the Western world, influenced a generation of aspiring artists.
Although completed and signed by Bonheur, The Horse Fair was begun by her life-partner Nathalie Micas. Together for 50 years, the pair met in 1836, later settling together on the Bordeaux estate. This magnificent and trailblazing pair are buried together in Pere Lachaise Cemetery in Paris.
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Important Notes About Your Painting:
If you have any request to alter your reproduction of The Horse Fair, you must email us after placing your order and we'll have an artist contact you. If you have another image of The Horse Fair 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.
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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.
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.
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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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