New! In His Honor – Louis Emile Adan – Beautiful Catholic Art – Archival Quality Print
Delicate and Serene, this picture of two nuns arranging flowers for the altar makes me wish I was there doing it with them. The painting is called "In His Honor," and the painter was Louis Emile Adan (1839–1937). Aden painted lovely, tranquil scenes of people in rural life and other "genre" paintings, including some religious ones, of which we have another in the shop. He painted at least two versions of this painting; we think this is the better one. Original is oil on canvas, 31.9 x 23.6 inches. Aden lived for almost a hundred years, and we suspect the tranquility in his paintings comes from a tranquility in his soul, and a reason he lived so long. Just a wild yet tranquil guess.** 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