Still Life with a Turkey Pie
Pieter Claesz, 1627
No print size passed the check for this piece: at 10 x 8 in, Wrong shape: a 30% crop. We would rather show it than sell a soft print.
See pieces like it you can buyThe groaning board entire — the pie in its feathered crown, the roemer of white wine catching the window. Claesz painted the feast as a fact of light; four hundred years on, the table still looks set for tonight. The nautilus cup and the olives — global trade laid out as lunch. Wealth is a table with room on it.
- Maker
- Pieter Claesz
- Date
- 1627
- Medium of the original
- Painting
- Original held by
- Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam
- Credit
- Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam · via Wikimedia Commons
- Rights
- Cleared for print
- Catalogue number
- PA-00489
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 |
|---|---|
| 10 x 8 in | Wrong shape: a 30% crop |
| 12 x 8 in | Wrong shape: a 16% crop |
| 14 x 11 in | Wrong shape: a 28% crop |
| 16 x 12 in | Wrong shape: a 25% crop |
| 18 x 12 in | Wrong shape: a 16% crop |
| 20 x 16 in | Wrong shape: a 30% crop |
| 24 x 16 in | Wrong shape: a 16% crop |
| 24 x 18 in | Wrong shape: a 25% crop |
| 30 x 20 in | Wrong shape: a 16% crop |
| 30 x 24 in | Wrong shape: a 30% crop |
| 36 x 24 in | Wrong shape: a 16% crop |
| 40 x 30 in | Wrong shape: a 25% crop |
| 48 x 36 in | Wrong shape: a 25% crop |
| 60 x 40 in | Wrong shape: a 16% crop |
- Scanned
- 2026-10-07
- Master file
- 1,599 x 900 px, srgb
- Tone
- Darks 8, lights 189 of 255; 0% clipped light, 0% clipped dark
- Colour
- 0% vivid
- Sharpness
- 7.89
- Notes
- Neutrals lean toward magenta: the paper and varnish of the original, kept as scanned
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The museum wall of wine.
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