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New! "Monk at Prayer" – J. Ferrer y Pallejà – Meditative Room Art – Beautiful Catholic Art – Catholic Gift – Archival Quality

New! "Monk at Prayer" – J. Ferrer y Pallejà – Meditative Room Art – Beautiful Catholic Art – Catholic Gift – Archival Quality

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This calm scene, for us anyway, when we meditate on it, gives us calm. The friar is praying the rosary. It is early dawn or dusk. The water is utterly placid. For us, the picture has a touch of the sublime, as the Franciscan is alone in what looks like a vast landscape with nothing else in it. 19th Century painters often used sublimity to give the viewer a sense of the nearness of God.


Joaquin Ferrer y Pallejà (1846-1946) was a Spanish artist. He made his living painting portraits, landscapes and domestic scenes, including some that were Catholic. His style was realistic but also had romantic elements. This combining of the two sometimes reached a point called “costumbrist," popular in 19th Century Spain and its colonies, although his style shifted over the decades of his long life. Ferrer y Pallejà painted this picture in 1899. He participated in the International Exhibition of Fine Arts held in Barcelona in 1907. (source: www.askart.com)


We thought this would be a good picture for a room where you wanted something to help support your prayers and meditations. Original is 54 x 73.5 cm. (21.3 x 28.9 in.), and recently sold to a private collection. (source: www.sothebys.com)



** 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


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“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.

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