Jupiter and Thetis
Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres, 1811
From €29Museum-quality print, also on canvas and framed.
Frequently asked questions
Which size should I choose?
This work is available in 30 × 40 cm. As a guide: 30 × 40 cm (about 12 × 16 in) for shelves, corners or gallery walls; 50 × 70 cm (about 20 × 28 in) above a dresser, a headboard or a desk; 70 × 100 cm (about 28 × 39 in) as the centrepiece of a living room or the wall above the sofa. Below the buy buttons you can see it to scale above a 2-metre sofa.
Does it come framed?
The print arrives unframed with a white border, ready to frame. If you choose a black or oak frame, it arrives mounted behind acrylic glazing, ready to hang. Canvases come stretched on a wooden frame.
When will it arrive?
Printed to order at the lab closest to your address. It arrives in 4–8 working days in Spain and the EU, and in 6–12 working days in the US, Mexico and other destinations.
What if it arrives damaged?
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Can I send it as a gift?
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About the work
- Date
- 1811
- Medium
- Oil on canvas
- Dimensions
- 347,03 × 257,18 cm (136 5/8 × 101 1/4 pulgadas)
- Collection
- Musée Granet, Aix-en-Provence, France
- Print up to
- 30 × 40 cm
- Reference
- XDV-2455
What the museum label doesn't tell you
Look at Thetis's hand: one tiny finger grazing the chin of a god who fills half the canvas. That scale gap isn't clumsiness, it's a program. Critics at the 1811 Salon tore into Ingres for weak anatomy and a flat, airless composition. Yet that same rigid frontal pose, Jupiter as a column of flesh, would later serve Ingres again when he painted Napoleon enthroned. Divine or imperial, power gets painted the same way: still, vertical, out of reach. Does the pleading nymph move the god, or just prove how heavy his throne is?
