Bacchus and Ariadne
Giovanni Antonio Pellegrini, 1720s
No print size passed the check for this piece: at 10 x 8 in, Wrong shape: a 12% crop. We would rather show it than sell a soft print.
See pieces like it you can buyBacchus — vine-leaves in his hair, the wine-flush in his cheek — leaning in to Ariadne on the shore where Theseus left her. The oldest subject in wine’s repertoire: the god arrives exactly when the story looks lost. A faithful reproduction of a public-domain painting held by The Metropolitan Museum of Art. The whole myth is in his crown of ivy — the one plant the god never travels without. Wine has always been the argument that the night is not over.
- Maker
- Giovanni Antonio Pellegrini
- Date
- 1720s
- 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-00227
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 12% crop |
| 12 x 8 in | Wrong shape: a 27% crop |
| 14 x 11 in | Wrong shape: a 14% crop |
| 16 x 12 in | Wrong shape: a 18% crop |
| 18 x 12 in | Wrong shape: a 27% crop |
| 20 x 16 in | Wrong shape: a 12% crop |
| 24 x 16 in | Wrong shape: a 27% crop |
| 24 x 18 in | Wrong shape: a 18% crop |
| 30 x 20 in | Wrong shape: a 27% crop |
| 30 x 24 in | Wrong shape: a 12% crop |
| 36 x 24 in | Wrong shape: a 27% crop |
| 40 x 30 in | Wrong shape: a 18% crop |
| 48 x 36 in | Wrong shape: a 18% crop |
| 60 x 40 in | Wrong shape: a 27% crop |
- Scanned
- 2026-10-07
- Master file
- 4,000 x 3,642 px, srgb
- Tone
- Darks 0, lights 125 of 255; 0% clipped light, 12.5% clipped dark
- Colour
- 0% vivid
- Sharpness
- 18.65
- Notes
- Shadows clip on 13% of the image: the darkest areas print as solid black
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