John William Godward, 1904 - Reverie - fine art print

Background information about the product

This over 110 years old work of art was made by the male British painter John William Godward in 1904. The painting has the size: 58,4 x 73,7 cm and was painted on the medium oil on canvas. It is included in the The J. Paul Getty Museum's collection in Los Angeles, California, United States of America. With courtesy of The J. Paul Getty Museum (public domain license).Also, the artwork has the following creditline: . The alignment is in landscape format and has a ratio of 1.2 : 1, which means that the length is 20% longer than the width. John William Godward was a male painter, whose art style was mainly Victorian Art. The British artist lived for a total of 61 years, born in 1861 in London, Greater London, England, United Kingdom and died in 1922.

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• Aluminium dibond print: Aluminium Dibond prints are prints on metal with an impressive depth effect. The Aluminium Dibond Print is your excellent start to fine replicas made on aluminum. For our Direct Print On Aluminum Dibond, we print the chosen work of art right on the aluminium composite white-primed surface. The direct print on Aluminum Dibond is the most popular entry-level product and is a truly modern way to showcase fine art reproductions, because it puts the viewer’s attention on the whole artwork.
• Acrylic glass print: The acrylic glass print, often denoted as a plexiglass print, transforms an original into marvellous décor. The work of art will be manufactured thanks to state-of-the-art UV direct print technology. It makes impressive and rich color hues. The great benefit of a plexiglass fine art print is that sharp contrasts and also small image details become more visible with the help of the delicate tonal gradation of the print.
• Printed poster (canvas material): The poster is a printed flat canvas with a granular surface finish. Please note, that depending on the size of the canvas poster print we add a white margin of something between 2-6cm around the artwork to facilitate the framing.
• Canvas print: A canvas direct print is a printed canvas mounted on a wooden frame. Your printed canvas of this masterpiece will give you the opportunity of transforming your new into a large artpiece as you would see in a gallery. Canvas prints are relatively low in weight, which means that it is easy to hang up the Canvas print without extra wall-mounts. Canvas prints are suited for any type of wall.

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Background information on the original work of art

Artist summary

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Artwork description as provided by the museum (© Copyright - The J. Paul Getty Museum - www.getty.edu)

Lost in her thoughts, a languid young woman lounges on a smooth, veined marble bench terminating in a herm figure, probably representing the type of the poet Homer with its heavy beard, thick hair, and narrow ribbon around the head. The cloth wrapped around her hips, over her silky chiton, or tunic, is not an authentic element of ancient costume, but it bears a repeated palmette border based on a common ancient design. The fluffy, spotted animal fur is almost tactile but has no specific connection to antiquity. John William Godward probably included it for the delight of juxtaposing such varied textures and colors. He painted the silk, fur, and marble with great accuracy, approaching photographic realism, and arranged them to enliven the subtly colored composition.

Godward specialized in portraying women alone in settings suggesting antiquity, usually decorative, dark-haired beauties in diaphanous gowns created with ingenious contrasts of colors and flesh tones.