Frequently asked questions
Which size should I choose?
This work is available in 30 × 40 cm, 50 × 70 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
- George Inness
- Date
- 1869
- Medium
- Oil on canvas
- Dimensions
- 30 x 45 1/2 in. (76.2 x 115.6 cm)
- Collection
- The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
- Print up to
- 50 × 70 cm
- Reference
- XDV-1673
What the museum label doesn't tell you
Inness painted this after the Civil War, and most specialists see in that central burst of light a metaphor for the newly arrived peace: the fields, the cattle drinking calmly, the figures strolling without haste. But the historian Leo Mazow proposes another reading, tied to its first owners, the Springs, founders of a school with ideals of social reform: for him, the figures represent their utopian dream of harmony between classes. The mist and diffuse light also betray his debt to Turner. What do you see first — the calm after the war, or the utopia of those who hung it on their wall?
