Pierre Puvis de Chavannes, 1891 - The Shepherd's Song - fine art print

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The modern art artwork was made by the symbolist artist Pierre Puvis de Chavannes in 1891. The original creation was painted with the size: 41 1/8 x 43 1/4 in (104,5 x 109,9 cm). Oil on canvas was used by the French artist as the medium of the masterpiece. Nowadays, this artpiece can be viewed in in the art collection of The Metropolitan Museum of Art, which is one of the world's largest and finest art museums, which includes more than two million works of art spanning five thousand years of world culture, from prehistory to the present and from every part of the globe.. With courtesy of The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, Rogers Fund, 1906 (licensed - public domain). The creditline of the artpiece is the following: Rogers Fund, 1906. Further, the alignment of the digital reproduction is square with a side ratio of 1 : 1, meaning that the length is equal to the width. The painter Pierre Puvis de Chavannes was a European artist from France, whose style can primarily be classified as Symbolism. The painter was born in 1824 in Lyon, Auvergne-Rhone-Alpes, France and passed away at the age of 74 in 1898 in Paris, Ile-de-France, France.

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Puvis adapted this scene from an earlier mural portraying the origin of the arts in antiquity, which he made for the Musée des Beaux-Arts in Lyons. Instead of presenting a straightforward narrative, the current painting emphasizes a dreamy, lyrical mood. The costumes and calm, static gestures derive from ancient statuary and relief sculptures, while the minimal modeling, simplified contours, and pale, chalky colors reflect the artist’s study of fifteenth- and sixteenth-century Italian frescoes. Puvis’s work inspired younger artists eager for alternatives to Impressionism, including Paul Gauguin and Georges Seurat.

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• The acrylic glass print (with real glass coating): The acrylic glass print, often labelled as a plexiglass print, will convert the original artwork into décor. The artwork will be made thanks to modern UV direct print machines. The result of this are deep, vivid colors. The great advantage of a plexiglass print is that contrasts and granular image details become recognizeable thanks to the fine tonal gradation in the picture. The real glass coating protects your selected art replica against sunlight and heat for decades.
• Printed poster (canvas material): A poster is a UV printed sheet of cotton canvas paper with a slightly roughened surface texture. Please keep in mind, that depending on the absolute size of the poster print we add a white margin of something between 2-6cm round about the print motif, which facilitates the framing.
• Aluminium dibond print (metal): This is a metal print manufactured on aluminium dibond with a true effect of depth. Its non-reflective surface make a modern look.
• The canvas print: A canvas print is a printed cotton canvas mounted on a wooden frame. How can I hang a canvas on my wall? Canvas prints are relatively low in weight. That means, it is easy to hang the Canvas print without the support of additional wall-mounts. Canvas prints are suitable for all types of walls.

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