New! Bedtime Prayers – Pierre Edouard Frere – Beautiful Catholic Art

This cozy picture shows two girls kneeling by their bed to say their nightime prayers. The lights are low, the little girl is plopped down, but her older sister is being very serious and devout. Praying by the bed before retiring is a good practice to teach children, and hopefully, even if they give it up for awhile in the pursuit of the cool, it will return in their sensible years and help them be anchored in the spirit of the God who made them and loves them, and, with you, tucks them in at night.

Pierre Edouard Frere (1819-1886) was a prominent French painter who came from an artistic family. He was trained in the Academic style of painting, which painted historical or mythological subjects in a very realistic manner. He became a Realist painter, which used the same highly refined and skillful techniques but used them to portray real people of the day.

His paintings were noted for their warmth towards their subjects. Frere said, “The finest characteristic of modern art is its sympathy.” You can see it in this painting; he has a love of his girls in the picture. They may have been his own; I’m just guessing, but he didn’t like the night life of Paris or its hectic pace, and moved his family to a quiet village outside of Paris. (source: rehs.com, who credit the quote to Harper’s New Monthly Magazine, November, 1871)

Original is Oil on Panel. 38 x 30 cm. Held at the Wolverhampton Art Gallery in the UK.

** IMPORTANT ** THE IMAGE IS SMALLER THAN THE PAPER! There is a blank border around the image. Approximately 0.5" wide for 5x7, 1.3" for 8.5x11, 1.6" for 11x14, and 1.75" for 13x17 and 16x20. For the two poster sizes, 18x24 and 24x36, we use 0.5" borders. We do this because the ratio of the rectangle of the art almost never matches the rectangle of the paper, and if it did happen to match one size, it would not match the others. Most fine art printers do this because otherwise they’d have to crop the art or warp it to make it fit the paper. The border looks good. It gives the picture a faux matted appearance.

There is almost always a little more border either on the left-right sides, or the top-bottom, depending on whether the ratio of the art is wider or taller than the paper.

We make Archival Quality fine art prints:

– Acid-free paper

– Archival pigments

– Cardboard backer for sizes 11x14 and less.

– Above story of the art

– Enclosed in a tight-fitting, crystal-clear bag.

– Rated to last 200+ years without fading if kept dry and out of the direct sun.

Thanks for your interest!

+JMJ+

Sue & John

Lincoln, Nebraska

“In order to communicate the message entrusted to her by Christ, the Church needs art.”

~ St. Pope John Paul II

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