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Still Life with a Gilt Cup

Name: Still Life with a Gilt Cup
Brand: Rex Vinorum
SKU: PA-00488

Willem Claesz. Heda, 1635

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No print size passed the check for this piece: at 10 x 8 in, 98 dpi; a historical scan is never enlarged. We would rather show it than sell a soft print.

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The banquet paused mid-thought — the rummer half-poured, the lemon’s spiral hanging, the silver toppled just so. The Dutch invented the luxury photograph two centuries before the camera: light on glass, wealth on linen, time stopped at its most opulent second. The window reflected in the rummer’s belly — the whole room hiding in the wine. Abundance, holding its breath.

Maker: Willem Claesz. Heda
Date: 1635
Medium of the original: Painting
Original held by: Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam
Credit: Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam · via Wikimedia Commons
Rights: Cleared for print
Catalogue number: PA-00488

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Size	Why
10 x 8 in	98 dpi; a historical scan is never enlarged
12 x 8 in	Wrong shape: a 14% crop
14 x 11 in	71 dpi; a historical scan is never enlarged
16 x 12 in	63 dpi; a historical scan is never enlarged
18 x 12 in	Wrong shape: a 14% crop
20 x 16 in	49 dpi; a historical scan is never enlarged
24 x 16 in	Wrong shape: a 14% crop
24 x 18 in	42 dpi; a historical scan is never enlarged
30 x 20 in	Wrong shape: a 14% crop
30 x 24 in	32 dpi; a historical scan is never enlarged
36 x 24 in	Wrong shape: a 14% crop
40 x 30 in	25 dpi; a historical scan is never enlarged
48 x 36 in	21 dpi; a historical scan is never enlarged
60 x 40 in	Wrong shape: a 14% crop