Heart of the Andes — Frederic Edwin Church

Frederic Edwin Church, 1859. Church, 1859. When it was first shown, people paid admission and used opera glasses to read the detail. Every leaf is doing something.

What arrives

• Printed on canvas and set in a wooden frame — not a poster, not paper behind glass.
• Made to order after you buy it, then shipped worldwide. Nothing sits in a warehouse fading.
• Three sizes, from a piece that suits a hallway to one that takes a wall.

About the image

• Reproduced from the museum's own high-resolution scan of the original painting — not a photograph of a poster.
• Original held by The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York. Bequest of Margaret E. Dows, 1909
• Public domain. Free to reproduce, which is the only reason a canvas like this can cost what it does.

Good to know

Screens are backlit and canvas is not. Colours read slightly deeper and softer on the wall than they do here — that is true of every print ever sold, and it is usually an improvement. Sizes are the framed dimensions. This painting sits at an unusual proportion — wider than it is tall by an awkward margin — so roughly 10% is trimmed from the long edge to meet the frame. Nothing central is lost.

Hangs well with

Finish the wall

Pieces that sit well beside this one — same kind of light, same kind of wall.

Venice, from the Porch of Madonna della SaluteJ. M. W. Turnerfrom $119The HarvestersPieter Bruegel the Elderfrom $119View of ToledoEl Grecofrom $99

Buy any two, the third is half price. Applied automatically at checkout — no code needed.