Painting of a small pond dense with pink water lilies, their roots visible through the water, a railed footbridge arching over the pond and lush, dark green folliage surrounding it.

Water Lily Pond

Claude Monet (French, 1840–1926)

Date: 1900
Medium: Oil on canvas
Size: 35¼ × 39¾ in (89.8 × 101 cm)
Museum: Art Institute of Chicago, accession 1933.441. See the museum’s record
Credit: Mr. and Mrs. Lewis Larned Coburn Memorial Collection

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

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Where Print size

Print: 21¼ × 24 in, the whole painting on 24 × 24 in paper
Center: 68 in (172 cm) from the floor
Above the headboard: 8 in (20 cm) from the headboard to the frame
Ideal width: 40 to 45 in over a 60 in headboard
Why this height: Centered at eye level, this frame would not sit 6 to 10 in above the headboard, so the 8 in gap sets the height.

21¼ × 24 in landscape print (54 × 61 cm), centered 68 in from the floor, 8 in above the headboard. 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 10 %	8 × 9 in	8 × 10 in ready-made	12 × 14 in custom	14 × 16 in custom	222 dpi, crisp from a step back
12 × 12 in	trims 11.1 %	10¾ × 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 11.1 %	14¼ × 16 in	16 × 16 in ready-made	20 × 20 in ready-made	22 × 22 in custom	125 dpi, soft up close
16 × 20 in	trims 10 %	16 × 18 in	16 × 20 in ready-made	20 × 24 in ready-made	22 × 26 in custom	111 dpi, soft up close
20 × 20 in	trims 11.1 %	17¾ × 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 11.1 %	21¼ × 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) 560 × 498 px from Room Paintings
Web image 843 × 750 px from Art Institute of Chicago
Print file 2,000 × 1,779 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.