Edgar Degas, 1896 - View of Saint-Valéry-sur-Somme - fine art print

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This artwork was created by the French artist Edgar Degas. The 120 years old artpiece had the size: 20 x 24 in (50,8 x 61 cm). Oil on canvas was used by the European artist as the medium of the artwork. Today, the artwork can be viewed in in the The Metropolitan Museum of Art's art collection, which is located in New York City, New York, United States of America. We are glad to state that this public domain artwork is being included with courtesy of The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, Robert Lehman Collection, 1975. Also, the artwork has the following creditline: Robert Lehman Collection, 1975. Moreover, alignment is in landscape format with an image ratio of 1.2 : 1, which implies that the length is 20% longer than the width. Edgar Degas was a photographer, poet, engraver, painter, sculptor, whose art style was mainly Impressionism. The French painter lived for a total of 83 years, born in 1834 and deceased in 1917 in Paris, Ile-de-France, France.

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For every fine art print we offer a range of different materials & sizes. We allow you to pick your favorite size and material among the following product individualization options:

• Acrylic glass print (with real glass coating): An print on acrylic glass, often referred to as a UV print on plexiglass, will turn the artwork into beautiful wall décor.
• Printed poster on canvas material: The Artprinta poster print is a UV printed cotton canvas paper with a slightly roughened texture on the surface, that reminds the actual masterpiece. Please note, that depending on the size of the poster we add a white margin 2-6cm round about the painting to facilitate the framing with your custom frame.
• Aluminium print (aluminium dibond): An Aluminium Dibond print is a material with a true depth. For the Aluminium Dibond option, we print the favorite artwork right on the surface of the aluminum composite. The bright & white components of the original work of art shimmer with a silky gloss but without glow.
• Canvas: The printed canvas, which shall not be confused with a canvas painting, is an image printed on an industrial printer. Canvas Prints have the advantage of being low in weight, meaning that it is easy to hang your Canvas print without any wall-mounts. That is why, a canvas print is suitable for all types of walls.

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Artwork information from The Metropolitan Museum of Art (© - by The Metropolitan Museum of Art - The Metropolitan Museum of Art)

Degas’s provençal painting of Saint-Valéry-sur-Somme, a medieval town on the Picardy coast northwest of Paris, surveys the site from an elevated vantage point, lending a view of rooftops and façades as well as backyards and gardens. This landscape was not painted on site, but later in the artist’s studio where he experimented with the structure of his many pictures of Saint-Valéry-sur-Somme. The particularly ambiguous foreground and fractured elements in the background may result from the synthesis of two separate drawings sketched on site, the left half aligning with one sketch and the right another. Degas once advised: “A painting is something that requires as much trickery, malice, and vice as the perpetration of a crime, so create falsely and add a touch from nature.”