François Boucher Are They Thinking about the Grape? (Pensent-ils au raisin?), 1747
The Interrupted Sleep
François Boucher (French, 1703–1770)
- Date
- 1750
- Medium
- Oil on canvas
- Size
- 32¼ × 29½ in (81.9 × 75.2 cm)
- Museum
- The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, accession 49.7.46. See the museum’s record
- Credit
- The Jules Bache Collection, 1949
Public domain image courtesy of The Metropolitan Museum of Art (Open Access, CC0).
Palette
- #313623, 32 % of the picture, closest to Forest Green walls
- #494A36, 23 % of the picture, closest to Forest Green walls
- #1F1F0C, 18 % of the picture, closest to Black walls
- #606351, 16 % of the picture, closest to Forest Green walls
- #7D806F, 11 % of the picture, closest to Olive walls
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Hang it
Pick the furniture and a print size to see it to scale on your wall.
- 22 × 24 in, the whole painting on 24 × 24 in paper
- Center
- 58 in (147 cm) above the stair line
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Print it
No standard paper matches this painting’s proportions closely, so print it whole with a white border, or trim the edges to fill the paper.
| Paper | Filling the paper | Printed whole | Frame | Frame with a 2 in mat | Frame with a 3 in mat | Sharpness |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 8 × 10 in | trims 12.9 % | 8 × 8¾ in | 8 × 10 in ready-made | 12 × 14 in custom | 14 × 16 in custom | 452 dpi, crisp up close |
| 12 × 12 in | trims 8.2 % | 11 × 12 in | 12 × 12 in ready-made | 16 × 16 in ready-made | 18 × 18 in custom | 329 dpi, crisp up close |
| 16 × 16 in | trims 8.2 % | 14¾ × 16 in | 16 × 16 in ready-made | 20 × 20 in ready-made | 22 × 22 in custom | 246 dpi, crisp from a step back |
| 16 × 20 in | trims 12.9 % | 16 × 17½ in | 16 × 20 in ready-made | 20 × 24 in ready-made | 22 × 26 in custom | 226 dpi, crisp from a step back |
| 20 × 20 in | trims 8.2 % | 18½ × 20 in | 20 × 20 in ready-made | 24 × 24 in ready-made | 26 × 26 in custom | 196 dpi, crisp from a step back |
| 24 × 24 in | trims 8.2 % | 22 × 24 in | 24 × 24 in ready-made | 28 × 28 in custom | 30 × 30 in custom | 164 dpi, crisp from a step back |
Sharpness is worked out from the largest file the museum offers. Above 300 dpi a print holds up at arm’s length; 150 dpi is plenty for a picture seen from across a sofa.
Download
Free for any use, including commercial: this image is public domain (CC0).
- Thumbnail (WebP) 507 × 560 px from Room Paintings
- Web image 565 × 624 px from The Met
- Print and original file 3,619 × 4,000 px from The Met
- The museum’s record of this painting The Met
Public domain image courtesy of The Metropolitan Museum of Art (Open Access, CC0). You may print, share, change and sell it without asking. Read what that means on our image license page, and how to get a good result in how to print a public-domain painting.
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