The Battle of Chesme at Night
Ivan Aivazovsky, 1848
No print size passed the check for this piece: at 8 x 10 in, Wrong shape: a 15% crop. We would rather show it than sell a soft print.
See pieces like it you can buyThe Turkish fleet burning at anchor by night, 1770 — fire, moon, and water sharing the light. Aivazovsky painted the Russian navy's proudest night as an inferno reflected twice over.
- Maker
- Ivan Aivazovsky
- Date
- 1848
- Medium of the original
- Oil on canvas
- Original held by
- Aivazovsky National Art Gallery, Feodosia
- Credit
- Aivazovsky National Art Gallery, Feodosia · via Wikimedia Commons
- Rights
- Public domain, verified
- Catalogue number
- PA-02049
Before a size goes on sale, the file is measured against it: pixels per inch at that size, how much of the picture a crop would lose, tone and sharpness. A size that fails is not offered, so there is nothing to choose wrong.
| Size | Why |
|---|---|
| 8 x 10 in | Wrong shape: a 15% crop |
| 8 x 12 in | Wrong shape: a 29% crop |
| 11 x 14 in | Wrong shape: a 16% crop |
| 12 x 16 in | Wrong shape: a 20% crop |
| 12 x 18 in | Wrong shape: a 29% crop |
| 16 x 20 in | Wrong shape: a 15% crop |
| 16 x 24 in | Wrong shape: a 29% crop |
| 18 x 24 in | Wrong shape: a 20% crop |
| 20 x 30 in | Wrong shape: a 29% crop |
| 24 x 30 in | Wrong shape: a 15% crop |
| 24 x 36 in | Wrong shape: a 29% crop |
| 30 x 40 in | Wrong shape: a 20% crop |
| 36 x 48 in | Wrong shape: a 20% crop |
| 40 x 60 in | Wrong shape: a 29% crop |
- Scanned
- 2026-10-07
- Master file
- 2,251 x 2,400 px, srgb
- Tone
- Darks 4, lights 155 of 255; 0% clipped light, 0.6% clipped dark
- Colour
- 0% vivid
- Sharpness
- 1.5
- Notes
- Neutrals lean warm (yellow): the paper and varnish of the original, kept as scanned
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