How the Timeline Breaks Down

A custom print moves through two phases, and it helps to price them separately in your head. Production comes first. The file is printed, checked, and in the case of a canvas stretched or a framed piece assembled. For most made-to-order art prints this takes two to five business days. A canvas usually sits at the longer end of that range because stretching adds a step.

Shipping comes second, and it is the phase you control least. Domestic delivery typically adds three to seven business days. International shipments can stretch to two weeks or more once customs gets involved. Anyone working toward a fixed date, a birthday or a move-in day, should count from the order date rather than the production date, and build in a few spare days.

This is also the point to be direct about the catalogue. Auvrique does not currently offer editions of Jeanne Hébuterne's work, so no Hébuterne print shipping time can be quoted here. The timelines above describe made-to-order prints generally, and the same arithmetic applies to works in the current range, whether you order a framed poster or a stretched canvas.

What Actually Causes Delays

Most missed deadlines are not exotic. The common causes are large formats, which take longer to produce and ship; peak seasons, when couriers run a day or two behind their published estimates; and customs, which can hold an international parcel for a week without telling anyone. None of these are visible at checkout, which is why they surprise people.

The honest mitigation is ordering early rather than paying for speed. Expedited shipping shortens transit, not production, so a rush fee on a Monday order still leaves a canvas in production until midweek. If the date is immovable, order two weeks ahead for domestic delivery and three for international, then treat anything faster as luck.

Format matters more than people expect. A framed poster is lighter and simpler to pack than a stretched canvas, and it moves through courier networks faster. If the deadline is tight and the wall is flexible, choosing the lighter format is the single easiest way to buy a few days. The tradeoffs between the two are set out in choosing between canvas and framed poster.

Ordering Against a Deadline

Work backwards from the date that matters. If the print needs to be on the wall by the first of the month, place the order two and a half weeks earlier for a domestic address. That buffer absorbs a slow production day and one missed courier attempt, which is the failure mode nobody plans for. A missed delivery attempt can add three or four days on its own.

Gifts deserve an extra margin, because a gift that arrives late is worse than one that arrives plain. If the occasion is close, consider whether the wrapping and presentation matter more than the format, which is covered in gifting a print and wrapping it well. A simpler format that arrives on time beats an elaborate one that does not.

For anything time sensitive, the reliable move is to confirm the current production and transit estimates before ordering rather than relying on a general figure. Policies and seasonal estimates are published in the Auvrique Shipping Policy, and the support team can confirm timing for a specific address. The same page explains what happens if a parcel arrives damaged, which is worth knowing before a deadline rather than after.