Peder Balke, 1848 - The North Cape by Moonlight - fine art print

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In 1848 the male artist Peder Balke created the masterpiece "The North Cape by Moonlight". The original had the dimensions 24 7/16 x 33 7/16 in (62 x 85 cm) and was painted on the medium oil on canvas. Nowadays, the work of art belongs to the The Metropolitan Museum of Art's digital art collection. With courtesy of The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, Gift of Christen Sveaas, in celebration of the Museum's 150th Anniversary, 2019 (licensed - public domain). Creditline of the artwork: Gift of Christen Sveaas, in celebration of the Museum's 150th Anniversary, 2019. What is more, the alignment is landscape and has a ratio of 1.4 : 1, which means that the length is 40% longer than the width.

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For every product we offer different sizes & materials. We allow yout to choose among the following variants:

• Printed poster (canvas material): A poster print is a printed sheet of canvas with a fine surface texture. It is perfectly used for framing your art print with the help of a special frame. Please bear in mind, that depending on the absolute size of the canvas poster print we add a white margin of approximately 2-6cm around the print motif to facilitate the framing with a custom frame.
• The canvas print: A printed canvas stretched on a wood stretcher frame. In addition to that, a canvas print makes a cosy, positive impression. A canvas of this artwork will allow you to transform your own fine art print into a large size artpiece like you would see in a gallery. Canvas prints are relatively low in weight, meaning that it is quite simple to hang your Canvas print without extra wall-mounts. A canvas print is suitable for all types of walls.
• Print on glossy acrylic glass (with real glass coating): The print on acrylic glass, which is sometimes described as a plexiglass print, makes the original artwork into great wall décor. Furthermore, the acrylic glass print forms a great alternative option to canvas and dibond art prints. Your work of art will be manufactured with the help of modern UV printing machines. The major upside of an acrylic glass print is that sharp contrasts as well as small details will be more recognizeable due to the subtle tonal gradation. Our plexiglass protects your chosen fine art print against light and external influences for up to 6 decades.
• Aluminium print (aluminium dibond): Aluminium Dibond prints are metal prints with an outstanding effect of depth - for a modern look and non-reflective surface. The bright and white parts of the artwork shine with a silk gloss but without any glow.

Important legal note: We try everything to depict our products in as much detail as possible and to illustrate them visually. Please keep in mind that the colors of the printed materials, as well as the printing may vary somehwat from the image on your screen. Depending on the screen settings and the condition of the surface, not all colors are printed 100% realistically. Since all our are processed and printed manually, there might also be slight deviations in the motif's size and exact position.

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Balke visited the North Cape only once, in 1832, but the experience became a touchstone of his imagination for the rest of his life. The tenebrous palette and expressive brushwork seen in this moonlit view are characteristic of Balke’s mature style, which stands in contrast to the more restrained naturalism of his mentor Johan Christian Dahl. When this painting (or another version) was exhibited in Oslo in the fall of 1848, a critic wrote that it "claims our interest, both for the nature of the subject itself and the singularity of the perception of the chosen moment."