What the painter is doing here
Émile Wauters builds the place out of planes. Village around Cairo is as much architecture as painting, and the street is shallow enough to feel like a stage set.
Village around Cairo. Our painter follows the same logic rather than copying a photograph of it: the distant stone stays soft and only the near detail is sharpened, which keeps the street deep.
| Artist | emile-wauters |
|---|---|
| Title | Village around Cairo |
| What you receive | A hand-painted oil painting on canvas |
| Public domain | Yes — the artist died over 70 years ago |
Why paint it by hand
City views fail when all the edges shout at once. Handled by hand the near detail is sharpened and the far stone stays hazy, and the depth comes back.
Every canvas is painted to order, so the quote follows your size, frame and destination rather than a fixed list. Tell us what you need on WhatsApp and we reply with an exact figure, usually within the hour. You are talking to the people who will actually paint it, not a middleman.
What size works
Nothing is pre-made, which means you pick the dimensions. The sizes below cover most requests:
| Size (inches) | Size (cm) | Best for |
|---|---|---|
| 24 × 20 in | 60 × 50 cm | Study, home office, above a desk |
| 20 × 16 in | 50 × 40 cm | Bedroom, hallway, above a console |
| 16 × 12 in | 40 × 30 cm | A shelf, a small wall, a gallery group |
| 64 × 48 in | 163 × 122 cm | Villa scale, lobby, hospitality wall |
| 48 × 36 in | 122 × 91 cm | Large living room, stairwell, loft |
These are reference points. We will size the canvas to your wall, not the other way round. Framing and freight are separate line items. Customs duties and import taxes are the buyer's responsibility (DAP).
Message us the dimensions you have in mind and we will come back with a figure.
💬 Get a Quote for Village around CairoWhere it belongs on a wall
On a large living room wall where it can be read from across the room — that is where this one settles. We do not crop to fit a stock size. The canvas is cut to the original's proportions, which matters if the composition is unusually wide or tall.
What people ask us
How do I clean and care for it?
Dust lightly with a dry, soft brush and keep it out of direct sun. Nothing else is needed for decades; oil paint is slow to change and easy to live with.
Do you frame it?
Framing is quoted separately, so you can decide once you have seen the finished canvas in photographs.
Is it legal to own a reproduction?
Yes. The painting is in the public domain, so reproducing it is legal and owning one is legal anywhere in the world. We never pass ours off as the original.