Vision After the Sermon

Paul Gauguin

1888 · Oil on canvas · National Galleries of Scotland, Edinburgh

Size2:3 ratio

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Unframed at this size — framing is available on 24×18.

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About this work

Artist: Paul Gauguin (1848–1903)
Year: 1888
Medium: Oil on canvas
Original size: 72.2 × 91 cm
Collection: National Galleries of Scotland, Edinburgh
Movement: Post-Impressionism

Breton women in white coifs and black dresses, fresh from a sermon, bow their heads while Jacob wrestles the angel on a field of blazing red before them. Gauguin painted it at Pont-Aven in the summer of 1888 and wrote to Van Gogh that for him the landscape and the fight existed only in the imagination of the people praying. The diagonal tree trunk divides the real from the visionary, the ground is vermilion rather than green, and the figures are drawn with heavy contours and flat colour learned from Japanese prints and worked out with his young friend Émile Bernard. It was a decisive break from Impressionism toward an art of ideas, and it became the founding picture of the style called Synthetism. The painting belongs to the National Galleries of Scotland in Edinburgh.

This print reproduces the whole work, uncropped, from a high-resolution scan of the original. The original is in the public domain.

Details & materials

• Restored in-house from the original painting — cleaned and colour-trued at museum resolution • Heavyweight matte fine-art paper, giclée printed at 300 DPI • Sizes: 16×12, 24×18, 32×24 in; 24×18 also available framed in black or natural wood • Made to order; colours may vary slightly from screen

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Produced in 2–4 business days, then shipped from the facility nearest you. Delivery is typically 3–6 business days (US/UK/EU) and 5–12 worldwide. Because each print is made to order we don't take change-of-mind returns, but if it arrives damaged or flawed we'll reprint or refund it — no return needed. Full policy →

Is this the whole painting, or a crop?

The whole work, uncropped. The image fills the print at the painting's own proportions; nothing is trimmed to fit a frame.

Is Vision After the Sermon (Jacob Wrestling with the Angel) in the public domain?

Yes. Paul Gauguin (1848–1903) died more than 70 years ago and the work was published before 1929, so the painting itself is public domain. This print is a reproduction made from a high-resolution scan of the original, which is held by National Galleries of Scotland.

What is it printed on?

Heavyweight matte fine-art paper with pigment inks, made to order in 12×18, 16×24 and 24×36 inches; the two larger sizes are also offered framed. Colours are matched to the scan, not brightened.

When was Vision After the Sermon (Jacob Wrestling with the Angel) painted, and in what medium?

Vision After the Sermon (Jacob Wrestling with the Angel) dates from 1888 and was made in oil on canvas; the original measures 72.2 × 91 cm.

What size works above a sofa or bed?

For a standard three-seat sofa or a queen bed, 24×36 inches reads as a single statement piece; 16×24 suits a narrower wall or a pairing. The print's proportions follow the original, so a landscape-format painting is wider than it is tall.

About this design

Vision After the Sermon (Paul Gauguin) — Vision After the Sermon · Paul Gauguin · 1888. This is a fine-art reproduction of a public-domain masterwork, shown whole and uncropped on a gallery ground, printed to order on heavyweight matte fine-art paper. Three sizes (12×18, 16×24, 24×36 in); the 16×24 and 24×36 are also offered framed. Part of the Madten Fine Art Collection. — — — Printed to order and shipped by our production partner, Gelato.

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