Loosely painted scene of a brown-haired girl in her nightgown standing in a dark room, gazing out a window into a brighter night, her face unseen and her hand drawing back the pale curtain.

The Girl by the Window

Edvard Munch (Norwegian, 1863–1944)

Date: 1893
Medium: Oil on canvas
Size: 38 × 25¾ in (96.5 × 65.4 cm)
Museum: Art Institute of Chicago, accession 2000.50. See the museum’s record
Credit: Searle Family Trust and Goldabelle McComb Finn endowments; Charles H. and Mary F. S. Worcester Collection

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

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Where Print size

Print: 24 × 36 in, filling the paper (trims 1.7 % of the picture)
Center: 58 in (147 cm) above the stair line

24 × 36 in portrait print (61 × 91 cm), centered 58 in above the stair line. Drawn to scale on a 12 × 8 ft wall.

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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 5.1 %	4¾ × 7 in	5 × 7 in ready-made	9 × 11 in custom	11 × 13 in custom	270 dpi, crisp from a step back
20 × 30 in	trims 1.7 %	20 × 29½ in	20 × 30 in ready-made	24 × 34 in custom	26 × 36 in custom	66 dpi, soft up close
24 × 36 in	trims 1.7 %	24 × 35½ 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) 379 × 560 px from Room Paintings
Web image 843 × 1,246 px from Art Institute of Chicago
Print file 1,353 × 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.