yamila velazquez - La doncella del cisne

About the work:
The piece presented is part of a limited edition of 5 units worldwide, digitally produced and hand-signed by the artist. Each print is unique within its series, ensuring its exclusivity and authenticity. On the back are all pertinent details of the work, numbering and signature.
Total dimensions: 100 x 65 cm
Material: High-quality professional canvas 100% cotton, maximum resistance to handling and external agents from the Eco Canvas Roma Glossy, Satin brand. We guarantee a durable product with visual quality.
Technique: Giclée print, renowned for its precision and lasting quality.

Certificate of authenticity:
If the buyer wishes, the artist can provide a certificate of authenticity. This must be requested expressly at the time of purchase.

About the artist:
Yamila Velázquez (Las Tunas, Cuba, 1993) is a contemporary artist who uses digital intelligence tools; she currently lives and works in Alicante, Spain. Owner and partner of a company dedicated to the sale, representation, and development of artists and artworks, Velázquez combines her business vision with a deep artistic sensitivity.
This young Cuban talent has established herself in the field of digital art, using contemporary media to explore themes related to nature, landscape, and the intimate relationship between woman and her environment. Her works address with subtlety and visual strength topics such as beauty, love, sensuality, and feminine delicacy, always framed in enveloping, romantic, and refined atmospheres.
With a vibrant and expressive aesthetic, Yamila Velázquez manages to fuse classical influences with a modern language, resulting in versatile, fresh, and deeply evocative works. The painterly texture of her images, the masterful use of color, and the emotionally balanced composition position her work as a current artistic proposal of high aesthetic value.

Shipping and presentation:
The work will be carefully packed by a professional and shipped in a rigid cardboard tube, internally protected with bubble wrap to guarantee its integrity during transport. Shipments are made through reliable courier companies such as UPS, FedEx, or Correos España, depending on destination and the most convenient option in each case.
The estimated delivery time is 7 to 10 days, though it may vary depending on the destination country.

We are looking at an image of clear academic and romantic inspiration, executed with the meticulousness and tenderness that characterize the great masters of the 19th century such as Bouguereau or Julius Kronberg. The work depicts a young woman with a serene face and introspective gaze, seated at the riverbank, caressing a majestic white swan with its wing raised, in what seems to be a gesture of protection, dialogue, or surrender.

The composition is classical: balance between figure and background, with an enveloping atmosphere achieved thanks to the softness of the modeling, warm tones, and the use of a golden light that seems to emerge from the sky at sunset. The red dress, with rich texture and monumental folds, becomes a second protagonist for its visual vibrancy against the pure white of the plumage.

The swan is not just an animal in this image: it is a symbol of the sublime, the unattainable, the purity of the soul, or even divinity in disguise. This encounter inevitably recalls the myth of Leda and the Swan, but this version avoids all violence or eroticism and focuses on the spiritual: a communion between the human and the celestial, between the young woman —who could be a shepherdess, muse, or representation of the soul— and a being that transcends the earthly.

The woman’s gesture is not one of possession, but of tenderness. She tilts her head and the swan responds with a nearly sacred wing movement. It is a deeply lyrical image that speaks of the desire for union with the sacred, respect for the beauty of the natural world, and the feminine role as mediator between the human heart and the eternal.

The work aligns with the current renaissance of emotional figurative realism, within the context of contemporary neoclassical aesthetics, a trend that recovers idealized beauty, symbolic narrative, and technically impeccable representation. Despite its look of a historical piece, a contemporary sensitivity is perceived in the gaze of the figure, in the emotional restraint, and in the compositional harmony.

We are facing a piece that connects with today’s collecting scene, which seeks beautiful yet deep works that evoke universal myths without explanations, communicating through silence and gesture.