Description
Premium Thick-Wrap Canvas entitled The Banks of the Bievre near Bicetre. Rousseau identified the subject of this painting in a handwritten note, affixed to its stretcher, dated 1909, the year he consigned it for sale to the dealer Ambroise Vollard. The scene depicts the landscape around Bicetre, a working-class community on the southern edge of Paris near the Bievre river (now buried underground as it courses through the city). In Rousseau's day, the waterway was heavily polluted, but certain spots still offered picturesque views, as suggested by the figures in peasant dress on the tree-lined path at left and the glimpse of the seventeenth-century aqueduc d'Arcueil in the background. Our proprietary canvas provides a classic and distinctive texture. It is acid free and specially developed for our giclee print platforms. Each print is produced with our own archival UV quality inks supporting a vibrant color gamut, while being scratch and fade resistant. Each premium canvas gallery wrap is finished with a closed back preventing dust collection inside the back of the wrap. The back includes a pre-installed, ready-to-hang sawtooth hardware.
