A brown-toned image of a group of scantily clad young women at left, one holding out her arm toward a group of naked young men standing at right.

Young Spartan Girls Challenging Boys

Edgar Degas (French, 1834–1917)

Date: c. 1860
Medium: Oil on canvas
Size: 38¼ × 55 in (97.4 × 140 cm)
Museum: Art Institute of Chicago, accession 1961.334. See the museum’s record
Credit: Charles H. and Mary F. S. Worcester Collection

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

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Pick the furniture and a print size to see it to scale on your wall.

Where Print size

Print: 24 × 36 in, filling the paper (trims 4.2 % of the picture)
Center: 55¼ in (140 cm) from the floor
Above the sofa: 8 in (20 cm) from the sofa to the frame
Ideal width: 56 to 63 in over an 84 in sofa
Why this height: Centered at eye level, this frame would not sit 6 to 10 in above the sofa, so the 8 in gap sets the height.

24 × 36 in landscape print (61 × 91 cm), centered 55¼ in from the floor, 8 in above the sofa. 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
5 × 7 in	trims 2.6 %	5 × 7 in	5 × 7 in ready-made	9 × 11 in custom	11 × 13 in custom	285 dpi, crisp from a step back
20 × 30 in	trims 4.2 %	20 × 28¾ in	20 × 30 in ready-made	24 × 34 in custom	26 × 36 in custom	66 dpi, soft up close
24 × 36 in	trims 4.2 %	24 × 34½ in	24 × 36 in ready-made	28 × 40 in custom	30 × 42 in custom	55 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 × 418 px from Room Paintings
Web image 843 × 629 px from Art Institute of Chicago
Print file 2,000 × 1,491 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.