Jan Havicksz Steen, 1655 - The Drunken Couple - fine art print

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• Canvas print: The UV printed canvas applied on a wood stretcher frame. The printed canvas generates a lively and positive impression. Your printed canvas of this masterpiece will let you turn your very own art print into a large size work of art like you would see in a true gallery. How can I hang a canvas print on the wall? A canvas print has the great advantage of being low in weight, which implies that it is easy and straightforward to hang your Canvas print without extra wall-mounts. Canvas prints are suited for all types of walls.
• Printed poster on canvas material: Our poster print is a UV printed sheet of canvas paper with a fine structure on the surface. Please note, that depending on the absolute size of the canvas poster print we add a white margin of something between 2-6cm around the print motif to facilitate the framing with a custom frame.
• Acrylic glass print (with real glass coating): A glossy print on acrylic glass, often denoted as a print on plexiglass, changes your favorite artwork into brilliant wall decoration. The work of art is being manufactured thanks to modern UV direct printing machines. The image effect of this are stunning, intense colors. The major benefit of a plexiglass print is that contrasts plus granular artwork details become recognizeable thanks to the subtle gradation. Our real glass coating protects your chosen art replica against sunlight and external influences for decades.
• Metal print (aluminium dibond): These are metal prints on aluminium dibond material with an impressive depth effect. For your Direct Print On Aluminum Dibond, we print your work of art onto the surface of the white-primed aluminum composite. Colors are luminous in the highest definition, the details of the print appear very clear.

Disclaimer: We try to describe our products as precisely as possible and to demonstrate them visually on the various product detail pages. Nonetheless, the pigments of the printed materials, as well as the print result may differ marginally from the image on the screen. Depending on your settings of your screen and the quality of the surface, colors can unfortunately not be printed as exactly as the digital version depicted here. Given that all art reproductions are printed and processed manually, there may also be minor discrepancies in the size and exact position of the motif.

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A man and woman are so drunk that they are unaware they are being robbed. Their foolishness is underscored by the print on the partition. It depicts an owl, considered a stupid creature in the 17th century. After all, it could not see by day, not even with a candle or eyeglasses. The drunken couple is thus just as blind as the owl, a message that survives in the English idiom ‘blind as a bat’.

In 1655 the Dutch painter Jan Havicksz Steen made the painting called "The Drunken Couple". This piece of art is part of the Rijksmuseum's collection located in Amsterdam, Netherlands. The public domain masterpiece is provided with courtesy of Rijksmuseum.: . The alignment is in landscape format and has an image ratio of 1.2 : 1, meaning that the length is 20% longer than the width.

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