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Ivan Aivazovsky · 1873

Rainbow

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A boat of survivors pulls away from a wrecked ship in a storm-tossed sea, a faint rainbow arching through the spray at the left. State Tretyakov Gallery, Moscow.

Up to 10.2 × 8 in · landscape

Size

Larger sizes are unavailable for this painting because the source scan's resolution wouldn't print at gallery quality.

Format & finish

Archival cotton canvas stretched over a wooden frame. Ready to hang as-is. No external frame.

Scale next to a 5'10" person

10.2″8″

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Materials & quality

›Canvas & inks

Giclée-printed on archival cotton canvas with fade-resistant pigment inks, hand-stretched over wooden bars. Gallery-wrapped — ready to hang with no extra frame needed.

›Floater frame

Hand-finished solid wood floater frame in five finishes. The canvas sits inside with a clean shadow gap — the way galleries hang contemporary canvas.

›Posters

Premium archival paper — 200 gsm soft matte or 230 gsm vibrant glossy. Ships flat or rolled, ready for your own frame.

›Faithful to the source

Printed from the highest-resolution museum and archive scans available. Each painting's maximum size is capped at what its source scan can support at gallery quality.

The story of Rainbow

Aivazovsky painted Rainbow in 1873, an oil on canvas of 102 x 132 cm now in the State Tretyakov Gallery in Moscow. It shows survivors of a shipwreck in a rowboat, their ship breaking up behind them in a heavy sea under a stormy sky. (Only year, size and owner are sourced from Wikidata / ru-wiki; check the rest against the Tretyakov page.)

Adapted from Wikipedia, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

Ivan Aivazovsky

Ivan Konstantinovich Aivazovsky was a Russian Romantic painter who is considered one of the greatest masters of marine art. Baptized as Hovhannes Aivazian, he was born to Armenian parents in the Black Sea port of Feodosia in Crimea and was mostly based there.

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Biography adapted from Wikipedia, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

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