We find ourselves on an emerald-green, grassy racetrack as a dusty cluster of horses and their jockeys bear directly down on us in this loosely painted horizontal landscape.

At the Races

Édouard Manet (French, 1832–1883)

Date: c. 1875
Medium: oil on wood
Size: 5 × 8½ in (12.6 × 21.9 cm)
Museum: National Gallery of Art, Washington, accession 1942.9.41. See the museum’s record
Credit: Widener Collection

Public domain image courtesy of the National Gallery of Art (Open Access, CC0).

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Where Print size

Print: 20¾ × 36 in, the whole painting on 24 × 36 in paper
Center: 49½ in (126 cm) from the floor
Above the console table: 8 in (20 cm) from the console table to the frame
Ideal width: 36 to 41 in over a 54 in console table
Why this height: Centered at eye level, this frame would not sit 6 to 10 in above the console table, so the 8 in gap sets the height.

20¾ × 36 in landscape print (53 × 91 cm), centered 49½ in from the floor, 8 in above the console table. Drawn to scale on a 12 × 8 ft wall.

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Print it

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
5 × 7 in	trims 19.4 %	4 × 7 in	5 × 7 in ready-made	9 × 11 in custom	11 × 13 in custom	924 dpi, crisp up close
12 × 16 in	trims 23.3 %	9¼ × 16 in	12 × 16 in ready-made	16 × 20 in ready-made	18 × 22 in custom	404 dpi, crisp up close
18 × 24 in	trims 23.3 %	13¾ × 24 in	18 × 24 in ready-made	22 × 28 in ready-made	24 × 30 in ready-made	269 dpi, crisp from a step back
20 × 30 in	trims 13.7 %	17¼ × 30 in	20 × 30 in ready-made	24 × 34 in custom	26 × 36 in custom	215 dpi, crisp from a step back
24 × 36 in	trims 13.7 %	20¾ × 36 in	24 × 36 in ready-made	28 × 40 in custom	30 × 42 in custom	179 dpi, crisp from a step back
30 × 40 in	trims 23.3 %	23 × 40 in	30 × 40 in ready-made	34 × 44 in custom	36 × 46 in custom	161 dpi, crisp from a step back

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 × 323 px from Room Paintings
Web image 843 × 486 px from National Gallery of Art
Print file 2,000 × 1,152 px from National Gallery of Art
Original file 6,472 × 3,729 px from National Gallery of Art
The museum’s record of this painting National Gallery of Art

Public domain image courtesy of the National Gallery of Art (Open Access, 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.