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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.
William-Adolphe Bouguereau concluded the endearing painting entitled L'oiseau Chéri, translated as Dear Bird, in 1867. By this period, the artist drew hundreds of thousands of people to the annual art who of the Paris Salon with his breathtaking holy scenes, like Sainte Famille (The Holy Family), as well as fabulous nudes of mythological characters from the ancient Greek culture.
The painter was academically trained in the prestigious École des Beaux-Arts in Paris, in which he learned from outstanding academic painters and was influenced by the past masters of the Renaissance. Bouguereau’s choice of themes, form, and technique were all affected by artists who worked upon standards of the Greek art. The French artist played with the idea of realistic portrayals done in oil paint and took it to a new level by creating photorealistic paintings. He studied human anatomy immensely, even attending cadaver desiccations to understand the structure of the body. Bouguereau was praised for his anatomically correct artworks, especially the hands and feet.
In L'oiseau Chéri, the painter captured an innocent scene in which a small bird is perched on a little girl’s finger. Although the artist often portrayed children in his idyllic paintings – meaning artworks with rural themes and peasant characters – this well dressed and high-class girl is lead to believe this portrait was a commissioned piece for one of his wealthy patrons. The model is in an indoor atmosphere, wearing a shimmering blue dress, and a ruffled white shirt with long puffy sleeves and black bows on the wrists. The same black lace is tied around her waist and also used as a headband, pulling back her blond curly hair.
The charming girl is leaning on a table with her right arm and lifting her other hand towards her nose while looking up. The small bird has a brown belly, a black body, a red circle over his face, and yellow highlights on his wings. Bouguereau playfully worked with a complementary color palette, as he placed an exotic patterned, green, and brown towel over the table. Behind the model, a decorated bird cage can be partially seen. The back wall is dark and features many ornamental details painted in a lighter ochre pigment. Bouguereau placed his light source directly above his model, creating an almost sacred atmosphere.
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If you have any request to alter your reproduction of L'oiseau Chéri (Dear Bird), you must email us after placing your order and we'll have an artist contact you. If you have another image of L'oiseau Chéri (Dear Bird) 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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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.
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You may choose to purchase your painting framed, in which case, it will arrive "ready to hang". We offer more than 20 beautiful models, all hand finished and expertly assembled by our experienced framers.
Note that for safety reasons we can only frame up to a certain size. Once the maximum size is reached the framing option is automatically disabled.
If you are planning to frame your painting yourself, use an existing frame, or frame it locally, you may choose to order your painting with a stretching service, meaning that it will arrive mounted on wooden bars.
If you're considering not framing your painting at all, you may opt for a Gallery Wrap. The term Gallery Wrap refers to the way the canvas is stretched, which is by wrapping it around thick stretcher bars, about 1.5 inch thick, with the canvas being secured to the back rather than the sides of those bars.
All orders ship with UPS, FedEx or DHL and will arrive directly to your home or office. A tracking number will be emailed to you as soon as the order leaves our studio so you can track it online. All orders ship express and usually arrive within 4-5 days from the shipping date. Due to shipping restraints, many of our framed, stretched, and oversize paintings may take 6-21 days for arrival depending on the safest route determined by the postal service.
Unframed paintings are covered with a special protective film, are gently rolled and then placed inside a strong specially designed tube.
Stretched, Gallery Wrapped and Framed paintings are covered with protective bubble wrap, separated by foam board and then carefully put into the cardboard box.