Rows of purple lavender run from the bottom of the picture toward a stone farmhouse with a terracotta roof, with tall dark cypresses behind it and a small gold sun in a pink-peach sky.
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Warm in a kitchen, a dining room or a bedroom with cream, lilac, warm white or soft terracotta walls. It holds the calm of a long summer evening.
Printable digital download, around 9,000 px on the long edge
The commercial licence covers hotels, offices, restaurants and public spaces
Print it yourself at any size, on metal, acrylic, glass or fine-art paper
On a Samsung Frame TV
Every download also includes a 3840 × 2160 file made for the Samsung Frame and other art-mode TVs: the whole work, uncropped, on a quiet mat in a colour taken from the picture. Send it to the TV with the SmartThings app and show it in Art Mode. All Frame TV art →
How large can I print it?
The file is around 9,000 px on the long edge. That prints crisply to about 75 cm on the long edge at gallery quality, and to 130–170 cm at the distance you look at a picture over furniture. Sizes, paper and framing, in detail →
Which paper or surface?
Gold on dark grounds wants a matte or satin fine-art paper (200–310 gsm), or aluminium for humid rooms; glossy photo paper turns the black into a mirror. The pale works also take satin and baryta papers.
Which licence do I need?
Personal (€9.99) covers your own home and gifts. Any business or space open to the public — a spa, clinic, hotel, office, restaurant — needs the commercial licence (€99.99, one venue, no renewal). The venue guide →
The rows of lavender are the first thing you notice, purple lines that start wide at the bottom and draw together as they move into the picture. They lead the eye straight to a stone farmhouse with a terracotta roof at centre right. Tall, dark cypresses stand behind the house, and further back other trees fade into hazy hills. The sky is a soft pink and peach, and a small round sun disc in gold leaf sits at upper centre-left. Warm gold light rests on the tips of the lavender, so each row seems lit from within. The brushwork is Impressionist and loose, with colour placed in short touches. Close up the strokes and the gold sun stand out clearly. From across the room the scene softens into a warm, calm summer evening.
Lavender has long been part of life in Provence. It grows wild on the dry hills, and from around the turn of the twentieth century farmers began to plant it in long rows, partly to supply the perfume makers of Grasse with essential oil. The fields bloom from about June to August, and the harvest comes in high summer, when the stems are cut and distilled. The straight purple lines, the stone farms and the dark cypresses have since become one of the best-known images of southern France. This work is painted in the spirit of the Impressionists who loved the southern light, with loose strokes and warm colour. The gold leaf sun adds a glow that belongs to the end of the day.
It suits a kitchen, a dining room or a bedroom that catches the evening sun. Cream, warm white, lilac, sage or soft terracotta walls all bring out the purple and gold, and a light oak or antique white frame adds a country feel. A cream mat gives it a gentle border. It looks especially good in warm lamplight. For a Provence pair, hang it with The Golden Wheat Field, or choose The Cypress Road for another sunlit southern view. A 40 × 60 cm print fits a kitchen wall, and 60 × 90 cm makes a centrepiece. Because it is saved at 300 dpi, the file gives a sharp print to around 91 cm along the longest edge.
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