Pinched with Four Aces
Cassius Marcellus Coolidge, c. 1904
No print size passed the check for this piece: at 10 x 8 in, Wrong shape: a 17% crop. We would rather show it than sell a soft print.
See pieces like it you can buyPolice dogs raid the game at the precise moment one player finally holds four aces. Coolidge's second act of dealing a perfect hand only to snatch it away — the series' favorite piece of cosmic bookkeeping.
- Maker
- Cassius Marcellus Coolidge
- Date
- c. 1904
- Medium of the original
- Oil on canvas
- Original held by
- Private collection
- Credit
- Private collection · via Wikimedia Commons
- Rights
- Public domain, verified
- Catalogue number
- PA-01811
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 17% crop |
| 12 x 8 in | 133 dpi; a historical scan is never enlarged |
| 14 x 11 in | Wrong shape: a 15% crop |
| 16 x 12 in | Wrong shape: a 11% crop |
| 18 x 12 in | 88 dpi; a historical scan is never enlarged |
| 20 x 16 in | Wrong shape: a 17% crop |
| 24 x 16 in | 66 dpi; a historical scan is never enlarged |
| 24 x 18 in | Wrong shape: a 11% crop |
| 30 x 20 in | 53 dpi; a historical scan is never enlarged |
| 30 x 24 in | Wrong shape: a 17% crop |
| 36 x 24 in | 44 dpi; a historical scan is never enlarged |
| 40 x 30 in | Wrong shape: a 11% crop |
| 48 x 36 in | Wrong shape: a 11% crop |
| 60 x 40 in | 26 dpi; a historical scan is never enlarged |
- Scanned
- 2026-10-07
- Master file
- 1,600 x 1,067 px, srgb, c2ci
- Tone
- Darks 12, lights 177 of 255; 0.1% clipped light, 0% clipped dark
- Colour
- 0% vivid
- Sharpness
- 23.34
- Notes
- Neutrals lean warm (yellow): the paper and varnish of the original, kept as scanned
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