Infant Bacchanal
Piat Joseph Sauvage, 1780s
No print size passed the check for this piece: at 10 x 8 in, Wrong shape: a 59% crop. We would rather show it than sell a soft print.
See pieces like it you can buyA bacchanal staffed entirely by putti — a grisaille frieze of infants playing at the wine-god’s rites, panel-mate to the Triumph. The Rococo loved to shrink its gods to cherubs; the revel becomes decoration, still unmistakably the revel. A faithful reproduction of a public-domain painting at The Metropolitan Museum of Art. Even the smallest reveler carries the vine — the emblem outlasts the scale. The appetite is inherited early.
- Maker
- Piat Joseph Sauvage
- Date
- 1780s
- 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-00229
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 59% crop |
| 12 x 8 in | Wrong shape: a 51% crop |
| 14 x 11 in | Wrong shape: a 59% crop |
| 16 x 12 in | Wrong shape: a 57% crop |
| 18 x 12 in | Wrong shape: a 51% crop |
| 20 x 16 in | Wrong shape: a 59% crop |
| 24 x 16 in | Wrong shape: a 51% crop |
| 24 x 18 in | Wrong shape: a 57% crop |
| 30 x 20 in | Wrong shape: a 51% crop |
| 30 x 24 in | Wrong shape: a 59% crop |
| 36 x 24 in | Wrong shape: a 51% crop |
| 40 x 30 in | Wrong shape: a 57% crop |
| 48 x 36 in | Wrong shape: a 57% crop |
| 60 x 40 in | Wrong shape: a 51% crop |
- Scanned
- 2026-10-07
- Master file
- 3,560 x 1,158 px, srgb
- Tone
- Darks 30, lights 80 of 255; 0% clipped light, 0% clipped dark
- Colour
- 0% vivid
- Sharpness
- 5.3
- Notes
- Narrow tonal range (23 L*): prints soft and even, as the original reads
- Neutrals lean warm (yellow): the paper and varnish of the original, kept as scanned
Bacchanal
The wildest room in Roman art, reproduced faithfully.
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