Frequently asked questions
Which size should I choose?
This work is available in 30 × 40 cm. As a guide: 30 × 40 cm (about 12 × 16 in) for shelves, corners or gallery walls; 50 × 70 cm (about 20 × 28 in) above a dresser, a headboard or a desk; 70 × 100 cm (about 28 × 39 in) as the centrepiece of a living room or the wall above the sofa. Below the buy buttons you can see it to scale above a 2-metre sofa.
Does it come framed?
The print arrives unframed with a white border, ready to frame. If you choose a black or oak frame, it arrives mounted behind acrylic glazing, ready to hang. Canvases come stretched on a wooden frame.
When will it arrive?
Printed to order at the lab closest to your address. It arrives in 4–8 working days in Spain and the EU, and in 6–12 working days in the US, Mexico and other destinations.
What if it arrives damaged?
Email us a photo within 30 days of delivery and we will send you a new one free of charge or refund you.
Can I send it as a gift?
Yes. At checkout you can write a gift message and ship it to the recipient's name and address. The parcel shows no prices.
About the work
- Artist
- Frans Snyders
- Date
- 1630
- Medium
- Oil on canvas
- Dimensions
- 79 x 151 cm
- Collection
- Museo Nacional del Prado (Madrid)
- Print up to
- 30 × 40 cm
- Reference
- XDV-1519
What the museum label doesn't tell you
Look at the music stand: there is an actual score, with staves and French text under each voice part. Someone copied it carefully from a real piece. Yet nobody has ever identified the work or its composer. We have spent four centuries staring at a concert that only ever sounded inside the painter's head. The little owl conducts with total seriousness -in period iconography, owls stand for Wisdom itself- while fifteen species arrange themselves like a court: the large birds at the edges, shielding the small ones at the center, exactly as Snyders liked to compose. A bird of paradise from distant lands mixes in with local sparrows. Was the score ever meant to be readable, or just to look convincingly real?
