Madam Pompadour

Amedeo Modigliani (Italian, 1884–1920)

Date: 1915
Medium: Oil on canvas
Size: 24 × 19¾ in (61.1 × 50.2 cm)
Museum: Art Institute of Chicago, accession 1938.217. See the museum’s record
Credit: Joseph Winterbotham Collection

Public domain image courtesy of the Art Institute of Chicago (CC0).

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Where Print size

Print: 16 × 20 in, filling the paper (trims 2.7 % of the picture)
Center: 58 in (147 cm) above the stair line

16 × 20 in portrait print (41 × 51 cm), centered 58 in above the stair line. Drawn to scale on a 12 × 8 ft wall.

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Print it

Standard paper sizes that keep this painting’s proportions, the frames that fit them, and how sharp each one prints.

Paper	Filling the paper	Printed whole	Frame	Frame with a 2 in mat	Frame with a 3 in mat	Sharpness
8 × 10 in	trims 2.7 %	8 × 9¾ in	8 × 10 in ready-made	12 × 14 in custom	14 × 16 in custom	200 dpi, crisp from a step back
11 × 14 in	trims 4.4 %	11 × 13½ in	11 × 14 in ready-made	15 × 18 in custom	17 × 20 in custom	142 dpi, soft up close
16 × 20 in	trims 2.7 %	16 × 19½ in	16 × 20 in ready-made	20 × 24 in ready-made	22 × 26 in custom	100 dpi, soft up close

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.

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Free for any use, including commercial: this image is public domain (CC0).

Thumbnail (WebP) 456 × 560 px from Room Paintings
Web image 843 × 1,035 px from Art Institute of Chicago
Print file 1,628 × 2,000 px from Art Institute of Chicago
The museum’s record of this painting Art Institute of Chicago

Public domain image courtesy of the Art Institute of Chicago (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.