Winslow Homer · 1876
A Visit from the Old Mistress
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Three Black women in a dim cabin, one seated and one holding a child, face their former mistress, an elderly white woman in a black widow's dress with a white lace collar. Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington.
Up to 21.8 × 16 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
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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 A Visit from the Old Mistress
A Visit from the Old Mistress is an 1876 painting by Winslow Homer, one of several works thought to come from a mid-1870s visit to Virginia, where he had served as a Union war correspondent during the Civil War. Scholars note that its composition is taken from his earlier Prisoners from the Front. It shows an encounter between formerly enslaved women and their former mistress during Reconstruction, and its intended tone is still debated by art historians.
Adapted from Wikipedia, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.
Winslow Homer
Winslow Homer was an American landscape painter and illustrator, best known for his marine subjects. He is considered one of the foremost painters of 19th-century America and a preeminent figure in American art in general.
All Winslow Homer prints →Biography adapted from Wikipedia, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.
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