A ship broken under a cliff, survivors hauled ashore on a line, lightning keeping the accounts. All Europe ordered storms from Vernet by the pair — one tempest, one calm — and this is the tempest.

Maker: Claude-Joseph Vernet
Date: 1772
Medium of the original: Oil on canvas
Original held by: National Gallery of Art, Washington (open access)
Credit: National Gallery of Art, Washington (open access) · via Wikimedia Commons
Rights: Public domain, verified
Catalogue number: PA-02043

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
12 x 8 in	416	Excellent	Trimmed 4%
16 x 12 in	289	Excellent	Trimmed 7.4%
18 x 12 in	277	Excellent	Trimmed 4%
24 x 16 in	208	Excellent	Trimmed 4%
24 x 18 in	192	Good	Trimmed 7.4%
30 x 20 in	166	Good	Trimmed 4%

Sizes withheld
Size	Why
10 x 8 in	Wrong shape: a 13% crop
14 x 11 in	Wrong shape: a 12% crop
20 x 16 in	Wrong shape: a 13% crop
30 x 24 in	Wrong shape: a 13% crop
36 x 24 in	138 dpi; a historical scan is never enlarged
40 x 30 in	115 dpi; a historical scan is never enlarged
48 x 36 in	96 dpi; a historical scan is never enlarged
60 x 40 in	83 dpi; a historical scan is never enlarged

Scanned: 2026-10-07
Master file: 5,000 x 3,472 px, srgb, c2
Tone: Darks 25, lights 143 of 255; 0% clipped light, 0% clipped dark
Colour: 0% vivid
Sharpness: 33.22