Fine Art Photo Gallery Painted Look Technique??

We were in New Orleans this past weekend and went into fine art galleries. Painting as well as large framed photos.

Many of the large/framed color photography prints I often thought "is that a finely detailed painting or a photo". Until I got real close did I convince myself they were photos. They had a painted look from normal viewing distance.

The owner said they were Giclee prints. I thought perhaps that was what was giving the photos a detailed paint look. No brush strokes though. Having now googled on Giclee I'm not sure if that what was giving the somewhat unique painted look to the photos.

Being a Photoshop person, I thought maybe it was one of the Photoshop paint filters and the Giclee (ink-spit) printing had nothing to do with the look/style. I played around a bit and didn't have success.

Anyone give me any insight or a lead into the technique used for this type of fine art photo display??? It was prevalent in several galleries.

I have chatted w several Grallery owners and artists on said Giclee prints.
The key here is using a Giclee printer and PS Giclee effect although nice
just does not cut it with standard inkjet printing.
The true digital Giclee printer is actually rare, expensive, messy, and subject to lots of downtime.
The true Giclee printers are Iris Printers but they now {since '90} apply the Giclee term to special inkjets.
It is somewhat different than desktop inkjet but related.
Few true Giclee printers exist today and the new inkjets just dont have same effect.
http://gicleeprinterre​view.org/
http://wide-format-printers.org …cleefineart_pri​nters.html