The record behind the sheet in your tube: the file we worked from, what we measured, what we chose and why, what we are allowed to sell, and the framing dimensions for this sheet.
Framing this sheet
- 50 × 40 cm sheet
- A 50 × 40 cm frame, no mat. Nearest standard 20 × 16 in. Margins 4.60 cm each side, 2.98 above, 3.42 below.
- 70 × 50 cm sheet
- A 70 × 50 cm frame. Nearest standard 28 × 20 in. Margins 9.50 cm each side, 3.72 above, 4.28 below.
- If you mat it
- Go one frame size up and cut the window three millimetres inside the printed image on every side: 40.21 × 33.00 cm for the small sheet, 50.41 × 41.40 cm for the large one. Off-white or warm white board, acid-free. Do not trim the sheet.
The sheet you have
- Work
- Henri Rousseau (French, 1844–1910), Outskirts of Paris, c. 1897–1905. Signed lower right.
- Object
- Oil on fabric, 37.8 × 45.8 cm — the smallest painting in this catalogue
- Held by
- Cleveland Museum of Art, Purchase from the J. H. Wade Fund
- Accession
- 1929.951 (CMA object 111470)
- File
- The museum's own open-access CDN, an uncompressed TIFF of 6,949 × 5,722 px and 119 MB, taken directly from the institution and not from an aggregator
- Crop
- None. The whole file is printed.
- Printed at
- 50 × 40 cm sheet: image 40.81 × 33.60 cm, 0.89× — 432 dpi available
70 × 50 cm sheet: image 51.01 × 42.00 cm, 1.11× — 346 dpi available
Both files built at a flat 300 dpi, the most matte fine art paper resolves. Nothing enlarged in software. - Made in
- The certified house nearest your address, to one specification: 200 gsm FSC-certified fine art paper, twelve pigment inks, same colour profile, same border geometry.
The other Rousseau
He is remembered for tigers and hothouse foliage, but a good part of his work looks like this: a low white house with a red roof and closed shutters, a road, a lock on the water, a few small figures, and a bank of cloud that takes up half the picture. These are the suburbs he walked through on his days off — the ring of quiet places at the edge of the city, most of them painted on small canvases for himself.
It is worth hanging next to a jungle. The jungles were invented out of the hothouses of the Jardin des Plantes and an illustrated book of wild animals; this he knew by walking. The hand is identical in both — flat, patient, every leaf and every shutter drawn separately, no aerial perspective, no softening. Seen together, the jungles stop looking naïve and start looking deliberate: the same way of seeing applied once to a place he had never been and once to a place he passed every week.
What we measured
The museum catalogues the canvas at 37.8 × 45.8 cm unframed, a ratio of 1.2116. The file is 6,949 × 5,722 pixels, a ratio of 1.2144 — 0.23 % apart. Expressed as a scale, 151.72 pixels per centimetre across the width and 151.38 down the height. The catalogued width is our anchor.
Why nothing is cropped
We read rows and columns at 0, 3, 8, 15, 25 and 40 pixels in from each of the four edges, each as a mean and a spread along the whole edge. The top runs 129 to 136 with a spread near 25, the bottom in the low hundreds with a spread above 30, the sides between 100 and 115 with spreads between 45 and 59 — the highest edge variation of any Cleveland picture we print, because this is a picture of hard-edged houses and foliage right up to the frame. What is absent is the tell: a flat, even, light ground at the margin, which on our Mondrian lozenge measured a constant 235 with a spread near zero. So the file is printed whole.
Why the two sheets bracket the original
The canvas is only 45.8 cm across — the smallest painting in this catalogue — and no sheet in our ladder lands on its exact size. The 50 × 40 sheet prints it at 40.81 cm, a little under; the 70 × 50 sheet at 51.01 cm, a little over. We do not cut a sheet to fit a picture, so the honest answer is to offer both and say which is which on the button.
The large one is the only enlargement in our Rousseau line, and a modest one: at 1.11× the file still delivers 346 dots per inch, above our floor of 300. Above that the file runs out — the ceiling at 300 dpi is 58.8 cm of image width, which is why there is no 80 × 60 sheet. On both sheets the height binds at our standard 84 %, because the picture is squarer than the paper, so the side margins run wider than the ones above and below.
What we are allowed to sell
The work. Henri Rousseau died on 2 September 1910. In Switzerland, the EU and the UK the seventy-year term ran out on 1 January 1981. For the United States what matters is that Rousseau was already in the public domain in France long before 1 January 1996, so the 1996 restoration statute has nothing to restore; and on every branch of the American rule — published before 1930, published later without notice or renewal, or never published before 1978 — the picture is free. The canvas was bought by a public museum in 1929, which is on the record.
The photograph. The Cleveland Museum of Art releases this object under Creative Commons Zero and publishes the full-resolution file itself. Commercial use is expressly permitted, no licence and no fee. The canvas was photographed square on with no stretcher depth showing, so it is a flat copy of a flat original and no photographer's right arises anywhere we ship, quite apart from the museum's waiver.
What we do not claim. This is a giclée reproduction printed with pigment inks. It is not a painting and is not sold as one.
A note on colour
Measured by our own method, 93 % of the sheet carries colour and 74 % of that colour is green, so the sheet joins our Green collection with the four other Rousseaus. The warm fifth is the red roof, the ochre walls and the road. The cloud bank across the upper half is too grey to register as colour at all, which is why the coloured area is 93 % here against 100 % on the jungles.
Please measure before you buy or cut. These figures describe the file we print from. Sheets are cut by machine to about a millimetre and frames vary between makers. We replace a print that arrives damaged or wrong; we cannot replace a frame or mat that turns out not to fit.
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