New! Catechism Lesson – Jules-Alexis Muenier – Beautiful Catholic Art – Archival Quality

This is how the faith is passed down. This is how it got to you and me. One generation, working in the Spirit, telling the next generation. There's something warm and honest in the picture. The priest is catechezing the children. The boy is standing, probably answering a question. One day he will be telling the story of Jesus and His Church to the younger generation.

Jules-Alexis Muenier (1863-1942) was a popular French painter who specialized in paintings of country life. All the ones we've seen are lovely. He occasionally had religious pieces, as he covers many aspects of rural life. He was a gifted artist, and he strikes us as very earnest.

Muenier did this painting in 1890. Oil on canvas, 70 x 90 cm. Housed at the Museum of Fine Arts and Archeology in Besançon, France. Title in French: La Leçon de catéchisme.

** 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

Original image is out-of-copyright. Descriptive text and any image alterations (hence the whole new image) © by Sue Kouma Johnson – Classic Catholic Art.