El Greco · c.1599
View of Toledo
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El Greco's only surviving pure landscape — Toledo under a black storm-sky, the Tagus winding through electric-green hills. The Met.
Up to 12 × 13.5 in · portrait
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 View of Toledo
Toledo sits on its hill under a sky that is tearing itself apart, black cloud over white cloud, while the hills below glow an unnatural green and the river bends away in silver. El Greco painted it around 1599, and it is one of the very few pure landscapes from the whole of Spanish painting before the modern era. It hangs in the Metropolitan Museum in New York. He moved the buildings around to suit himself, put the cathedral where it is not, and painted the light of a storm nobody has ever seen. Three hundred years later the Expressionists claimed him as one of their own.
On a wall, View of Toledo is electric. The dominant colors are storm gray-blue and near-black in the sky, acid green in the hills, and pale gray stone in the city, so it is a cool, dramatic image that looks best against white, gray, or dark walls. It suits a study, a bedroom, a living room, a music room, or a hallway, and it fits modern, gothic, moody, and eclectic interiors. It is a nearly square image with plenty of detail in the city, so we offer it up to the Small at 12 × 13.5 in, the size for a wall of its own above a desk or a console; the Petite at 11 × 12.4 in works in a grouping of landscapes.
El Greco's The Burial of the Count of Orgaz is the painting Toledo is most famous for. Van Gogh's The Starry Night is the sky people put beside this one, and Friedrich's Wanderer above the Sea of Fog is the other landscape where the weather is the subject. More from El Greco.
Printed in our studio from a public-domain photograph of the Met's canvas, with the greens left as strange as they are in the original.
El Greco
Doménikos Theotokópoulos, most widely known as El Greco, was a Greek painter, sculptor and architect of the Spanish Renaissance, regarded as one of the greatest artists of all time. El Greco was a nickname, and the artist normally signed his paintings with his full birth name in Greek letters often adding the word Κρής, which means "Cretan" in Ancient Greek.
All El Greco prints →Biography adapted from Wikipedia, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.
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