No shore, no sail, no incident — only sun, sky, and sea, reduced to their treaty terms. From Kensett's final summer of work, months before his death: luminism distilled until nothing but light remains.

Maker: John Frederick Kensett
Date: 1872
Medium of the original: Oil on canvas
Original held by: Metropolitan Museum of Art (open access)
Credit: Metropolitan Museum of Art (open access)
Rights: Public domain, verified
Catalogue number: PA-01970

As chosen: 24 x 16 in, art print, classic frame
Picture	24 x 16 in
Outside size	25.6 x 17.6 in
Depth	0.9 in (22 mm)
Weight	[[REAL PROOF NEEDED: shipped weight per size and frame]]
Hanging	[[REAL PROOF NEEDED: hanging hardware Prodigi fits to this frame]]
Material	Enhanced matte art paper, 200 gsm; acrylic glazing
Made in	Charlotte, North Carolina, by Prodigi

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.

How the print check works

Sizes offered
Size	dpi	Grade	How it fits
12 x 8 in	317	Excellent	Trimmed 2.2%
16 x 12 in	216	Excellent	Trimmed 9.1%
18 x 12 in	211	Excellent	Trimmed 2.2%
24 x 16 in	158	Good	Trimmed 2.2%

Sizes withheld
Size	Why
10 x 8 in	Wrong shape: a 15% crop
14 x 11 in	Wrong shape: a 13% crop
20 x 16 in	Wrong shape: a 15% crop
24 x 18 in	144 dpi; a historical scan is never enlarged
30 x 20 in	127 dpi; a historical scan is never enlarged
30 x 24 in	Wrong shape: a 15% crop
36 x 24 in	105 dpi; a historical scan is never enlarged
40 x 30 in	86 dpi; a historical scan is never enlarged
48 x 36 in	72 dpi; a historical scan is never enlarged
60 x 40 in	63 dpi; a historical scan is never enlarged

Scanned

2026-10-07

Master file

3,811 x 2,597 px, srgb

Tone

Darks 73, lights 141 of 255; 0% clipped light, 1.6% clipped dark

Colour

0% vivid

Sharpness

0.93

Notes

Narrow tonal range (28 L*): prints soft and even, as the original reads
Neutrals lean warm (yellow): the paper and varnish of the original, kept as scanned
Soft fine detail at full resolution: smaller sizes print crisper

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