
Polyphemus and Galatea
Unknown, last decade of the 1st century BCE
$235
Print check at 16 x 24 in: 151 dpi, good. Trimmed 0.8% to the shape of the print.
Shipping to a US address: $25.90 for this piece, from the print room in Charlotte, North Carolina.
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A mythological fresco panel — the Cyclops Polyphemus and the nymph Galatea in a luminous landscape — from the imperial villa at Boscotrecase. A faithful reproduction of a public-domain work in The Metropolitan Museum (CC0). The figures are tiny; the landscape, and the longing, are everything. Even monsters were painted in love.
- Maker
- Unknown
- Date
- last decade of the 1st century BCE
- Medium of the original
- Painting
- Original held by
- The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
- Credit
- The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
- Rights
- Cleared for print
- Catalogue number
- PA-00224
| Picture | 16 x 24 in |
|---|---|
| Outside size | 17.6 x 25.6 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.
| Size | dpi | Grade | How it fits |
|---|---|---|---|
| 8 x 12 in | 302 | Excellent | Trimmed 0.8% |
| 12 x 18 in | 201 | Excellent | Trimmed 0.8% |
| 16 x 24 in | 151 | Good | Trimmed 0.8% |
| Size | Why |
|---|---|
| 8 x 10 in | Wrong shape: a 16% crop |
| 11 x 14 in | Wrong shape: a 15% crop |
| 12 x 16 in | Wrong shape: a 10% crop |
| 16 x 20 in | Wrong shape: a 16% crop |
| 18 x 24 in | Wrong shape: a 10% crop |
| 20 x 30 in | 120 dpi; a historical scan is never enlarged |
| 24 x 30 in | Wrong shape: a 16% crop |
| 24 x 36 in | 100 dpi; a historical scan is never enlarged |
| 30 x 40 in | Wrong shape: a 10% crop |
| 36 x 48 in | Wrong shape: a 10% crop |
| 40 x 60 in | 60 dpi; a historical scan is never enlarged |
- Scanned
- 2026-10-07
- Master file
- 2,435 x 3,625 px, srgb
- Tone
- Darks 36, lights 75 of 255; 0% clipped light, 0% clipped dark
- Colour
- 0% vivid
- Sharpness
- 5.84
- Notes
- Narrow tonal range (18 L*): prints soft and even, as the original reads
- Neutrals lean warm (yellow): the paper and varnish of the original, kept as scanned
Shipping for this piece to a US address is $25.90, the print room’s own rate, charged per piece. Checkout shows the total before you pay.
Every piece is printed after you order it, in Charlotte, North Carolina, and ships from there. For now we ship to US addresses only.
A piece that arrives damaged, misprinted or in the wrong size is replaced at our cost. The details: shipping and returns and replacements.
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