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Perseus Freeing Andromeda, c.1620/22 by Peter Paul Rubens
Canvas Print - 19202-RPP

Location: Gemäldegalerie, Berlin, Germany
Original Size: 99.7 × 139.6 cm

Perseus Freeing Andromeda by Rubens (c.1620/22) is reproduced as a museum-quality giclée canvas print. Printed with archival inks on 400 g/m² canvas and hand-varnished for UV protection, it can be made in any size up to 29.3 × 41.3 in, scaled proportionally, with optional framing. Free worldwide shipping available; unframed prints ship in 2 workdays, framed in 7 to 8. Guaranteed 100-year color durability.

Perseus Freeing Andromeda by Peter Paul Rubens, c.1620/22 - canvas print
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The size you set is the printed image, the part you see once the canvas is stretched. Beyond that size we add 1.2 in of blank canvas on every side, at no extra cost, so the stretcher bars have something to grip. A 15.4 × 21.7 in print therefore arrives as 17.7 × 24 in. Both numbers are shown in Your Selection above and change with the slider.

Yes. The slider covers every size up to 29.3 × 41.3 in, always in the proportions of the original. If you need something larger, or a size that has to fit a frame you already own, write to us with the title and the dimensions and we will tell you what is possible. Every print is made to order, so there is usually a way.

Because the original is an oil painting on canvas. We match the print medium to the original: oil paintings go on canvas, works on paper go on fine art paper. Our canvas is natural cotton, 400 g/m² Canvas, acid-free and pH neutral, and its woven texture gives the most natural impression of Rubens's original oil painting. The finish is satin/gloss, which keeps the depth of the dark tones the way varnish does on a painting in a museum; a matte canvas looks dull and pale next to it. More about our print media.

Start with the original, which measures 99.7 × 139.6 cm. A print at or near that size reads the way the artist judged it. Printing smaller is easy; enlarging a small original changes its character. For the wall, above a sofa or a sideboard aim for two thirds to three quarters of the furniture width, and hang the center at eye level. Cut paper to size and tape it to the wall before you order. The original hangs in Gemäldegalerie, Berlin, Germany. Full size guide.
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About the Painting

The plot is taken from Ovid's Metamorphoses. The Ethiopian queen Cassiopeia boasted that she was prettier than the Nereids. Neptune, the angry god of the sea, sent a sea monster with a flood that caused grave mischief to the country. To rid themselves of him - so the oracle's advice went - the king's daughter Andromeda was to be sacrificed to the dragon. The unfortunate girl was already bound to the rock when Perseus, returning on his winged steed from a victorious fight with Medusa, beheld her there. "At first she, the maiden, was silent and scrupled to speak to the man, and would surely have covered her chaste face with her hands had she not been bound." Having received the assurance of his parents that they would give him Andromeda for a wife, Perseus slew the dragon.

Rubens recreates in his painting the scene described without further detail by Ovid: Perseus in shining armour and bright red robe unties Andromeda. The two mischievous cupids who help him leave no room for doubt that a tender love duet is being played out here. Strong and virile is the hero, accustomed to victories, touchingly helpless in his nakedness is the maiden, bowed head and not daring to look at her liberator. Three other playful cupids are engaged with the battle-weary Pegasus, and far to the left lies the slain monster in the sea.

The artist has painted this subject in two versions. The Berlin painting, which with some important deviations repeats the composition probably created earlier in Leningrad, is imposed as the more mature solution. The fact that Rubens developed this mythological subject just at this time is explained by the political and allegorical interpretation of the subject. As Hans Gerhard Evers has established, it was common in the 16th and 17th centuries for the liberation of Andromeda to be depicted on official occasions, namely on triumphal arches: the ruler identified with Perseus liberates the state personified by Andromeda from the monster, which could symbolise all sorts of troubles, be they uprisings or wars. In 1621, the twelve-year truce between Spain and the Netherlands was due to expire, so there was a danger of hostilities flaring up again.

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