Four women with musical instruments lounge in a massive garden courtyard.

The Interior of the Palm House on the Pfaueninsel Near Potsdam

Carl Blechen (German, 1798–1840)

Date: 1834
Medium: Oil on canvas
Size: 53¼ × 49½ in (135 × 126 cm)
Museum: Art Institute of Chicago, accession 1996.388. See the museum’s record
Credit: Through prior acquisitions of the George F. Harding Collection; L.L. and A.S. Coburn and Alexander A. McKay endowments; through prior gift of William Wood Prince; through prior acquisitions of the Charles H. and Mary F. S. Worcester Endowment

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

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Where Print size

Print: 22½ × 24 in, the whole painting on 24 × 24 in paper
Center: 58 in (147 cm) above the stair line

22½ × 24 in portrait print (57 × 61 cm), centered 58 in above the stair line. Drawn to scale on a 12 × 8 ft wall.

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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 14.3 %	8 × 8½ in	8 × 10 in ready-made	12 × 14 in custom	14 × 16 in custom	232 dpi, crisp from a step back
12 × 12 in	trims 6.7 %	11¼ × 12 in	12 × 12 in ready-made	16 × 16 in ready-made	18 × 18 in custom	166 dpi, crisp from a step back
16 × 16 in	trims 6.7 %	15 × 16 in	16 × 16 in ready-made	20 × 20 in ready-made	22 × 22 in custom	124 dpi, soft up close
16 × 20 in	trims 14.3 %	16 × 17 in	16 × 20 in ready-made	20 × 24 in ready-made	22 × 26 in custom	116 dpi, soft up close
20 × 20 in	trims 6.7 %	18¾ × 20 in	20 × 20 in ready-made	24 × 24 in ready-made	26 × 26 in custom	99 dpi, soft up close
24 × 24 in	trims 6.7 %	22½ × 24 in	24 × 24 in ready-made	28 × 28 in custom	30 × 30 in custom	83 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) 522 × 560 px from Room Paintings
Web image 843 × 905 px from Art Institute of Chicago
Print file 1,862 × 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.