For the price, I felt like I was taking a chance. I am very pleased I did and pleasantly surprised by how nice this looks. I could easily envision this priced at $695 (or more) at some high-end furniture store. I just couldn't bear to pay those kind of prices, and I'd been looking for a painting for a certain place in my home for years now. This is perfect! This looks better than some of those paintings selling for much more, in fact. My husband thought this was a hand-painted oil when I showed it to him. It has brush strokes and subtle colors. It doesn't have that mass produced "hotel art" feeling, either. Real life is true to Great Offer Stock picture.