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The Second Cutting
Original price was: $518.00.$259.00Current price is: $259.00.
Artist: Mathias J Alten
A quiet hay field caught mid-harvest, The Second Cutting by Mathias J Alten brings warm plein-air light and unhurried rural life to any wall.
Description
Description
Sun falls flat across a hay field where a second pass of mowing has just begun, dust and grass scent still hanging over the rows. The Second Cutting sets this instant of ordinary labor before the viewer, a fitting presence for a wall where quiet, working scenes are welcome.
About Second Cutting
The composition opens onto a wide field split between cut and uncut grass, with a broad sky pressing down close to the horizon. Mathias J Alten built the picture on that division of textures and tones, using it to carry the eye across the canvas without any single figure or object demanding attention. The palette runs to sun-bleached greens, straw gold, and the pale blue of a summer haze, colors chosen to match the heat and light of a working afternoon rather than to dramatize it.
Alten handles the outdoor light with the ease of a painter trained in both European academic method and the American plein-air habit of working directly from the motif. Brushwork stays loose and confident in the grass and sky, tightening slightly where the eye needs an anchor. The picture belongs to his broader practice of turning the rural Midwest into serious subject matter, treated with the same discipline he brought to portraiture and figure work, and it reflects a moment when American painters were finding their own light rather than borrowing someone else finish.
The hand-painted reproduction
Each reproduction from ByMuseum is a handmade oil painting, worked by a trained artist on canvas rather than printed or projected. The painter studies the palette of the original, matches its warm greens and golds by eye and by hand, and builds the surface in layers of oil so the finished canvas carries the same ridges of paint and the same shifts in light across its texture. This is an oil painting reproduction in the fullest sense, hand-painted by a professional artist stroke by stroke, not a copy pulled from a machine.
- Hand-painted oil on canvas, made to order
- Available in multiple sizes
- Gallery-ready presentation
- Certificate of authenticity included
- Free worldwide shipping, with no shipping charge to any country
PRODUCT INFORMATION
Each ByMuseum artwork is a hand-painted oil painting reproduction created by trained artists on high-quality cotton canvas. Every piece is reviewed, finished, and packed according to the framing option you select.
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Unframed — Rolled in Tube
Your artwork is painted on premium cotton canvas, then shipped safely rolled in a rigid tube with extra blank canvas border — ready for stretching or framing locally.
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Select a handcrafted frame and we’ll deliver your painting fully assembled, protected, and ready to hang.
For safe shipping, framing is available up to a maximum size. Larger sizes will automatically disable the frame option.
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Choose “Stretched” to receive your canvas mounted on wooden stretcher bars — perfect if you’ll frame it later or display it as-is.
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Gallery Wrap is a deeper, 1.5" style stretcher. The canvas wraps around the sides and is stapled on the back for a clean, modern, frameless look.
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Stretched, Gallery Wrapped, and Framed paintings are wrapped, cushioned with foam protection, and boxed for safe transit.
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