New! Maternity – Edmund Blair Leighton – Catholic Art Print – Archival Quality

Edmund Blair Leighton (1853-1922) was an English painter of surpassing clarity and precision. We carry several of his works in our shop, and they are among the most beautiful paintings we offer.

This one, called "Maternity," shows two women in a convent. The seated mother, holding her baby, and the nun saying her breviary, lifting an eye to the baby. It's kind of a complex psychology, in a way. In another way, everybody likes babies! At least every Catholic.

Leighton was raised at the former residence of the founder of the Pre-Raphaelites, Dante Gabriel Rossetti. William Morris, the other great Pre-Raphaelite, was one of his neighbors. He took the movement to a very high point, at the close of that style. Many of his paintings depicted Eighteenth Century scenes of domestic life, along with medieval heroines and heroes. This painting was done in 1917. Original oil on canvas. 51 7/8 x 46¾ in. (131.8 x 118.8 cm.) It sold at Christie's a few years ago.

Remind me if you'd like to have this picture in a square frame, and I'll get them listed for you. Sorry for treating this shop like an antiquarian book shop! We have a couple of sizes of square frames, and they look good.

** 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 Johnson

St. Mary's, 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 – CatholicArtAndJewelry.com