A hazy morning over the harbour at Le Havre: mist, masts and cranes barely sketched in grey-blue, and floating over the cold water a single small sun, orange as an ember, laying a broken trail of light across the ripples. Monet showed it in 1874 and, asked for a title, said to just call it an impression. A hostile critic seized on the word to mock the whole show — and the insult became the name of the movement that changed painting forever. Stand back and the harbour resolves; step close and it is nothing but frank, quick strokes. The picture where modern art begins.

Maker: Claude Monet (1840 to 1926)
Date: 1872
Medium of the original: Painting
Original held by: Musée Marmottan Monet, Paris
Credit: Musée Marmottan Monet, Paris · via Wikimedia Commons
Rights: Public domain, verified
Catalogue number: PA-00636

As chosen: 24 x 18 in, art print, classic frame
Picture	24 x 18 in
Outside size	25.6 x 19.6 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
10 x 8 in	559	Excellent	Trimmed 3%
14 x 11 in	407	Excellent	Trimmed 1.3%
16 x 12 in	360	Excellent	Trimmed 3.3%
20 x 16 in	279	Excellent	Trimmed 3%
24 x 18 in	240	Excellent	Trimmed 3.3%
30 x 24 in	186	Good	Trimmed 3%

Sizes withheld
Size	Why
12 x 8 in	Wrong shape: a 14% crop
18 x 12 in	Wrong shape: a 14% crop
24 x 16 in	Wrong shape: a 14% crop
30 x 20 in	Wrong shape: a 14% crop
36 x 24 in	Wrong shape: a 14% crop
40 x 30 in	144 dpi; a historical scan is never enlarged
48 x 36 in	120 dpi; a historical scan is never enlarged
60 x 40 in	Wrong shape: a 14% crop

Scanned

2026-10-07

Master file

5,773 x 4,478 px, srgb, Generic RGB Profile

Tone

Darks 108, lights 150 of 255; 0% clipped light, 0% clipped dark

Colour

0% vivid

Sharpness

14.14

Notes

Colour profile Generic RGB Profile, converted to sRGB for the screen and the print
Narrow tonal range (16 L*): prints soft and even, as the original reads
Neutrals lean warm (yellow): the paper and varnish of the original, kept as scanned

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