This painting depicts three individuals in a colorful interior. A man on the left is standing on steps that are coming up from below. He wears a green suit with a white shirt underneath it and holds a hat.

The Visit - Couple and Newcomer

Ernst Ludwig Kirchner (German, 1880–1938)

Date: 1922
Medium: oil on canvas
Size: 47½ × 47½ in (120.6 × 120.9 cm)
Museum: National Gallery of Art, Washington, accession 1989.60.2. See the museum’s record
Credit: Ruth and Jacob Kainen Collection, Gift in Honor of the 50th Anniversary of the National Gallery of Art

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

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Where Print size

Print: 24 × 24 in, filling the paper (trims 0.2 % of the picture)
Center: 67¼ in (171 cm) from the floor
Above the mantel: 6 in (15 cm) from the mantel to the frame
Ideal width: 44 to 50 in over a 66 in mantel
Why this height: Centered at eye level, this frame would not sit 4 to 8 in above the mantel, so the 6 in gap sets the height.

24 × 24 in square print (61 × 61 cm), centered 67¼ in from the floor, 6 in above the mantel. 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
12 × 12 in	trims 0.2 %	12 × 12 in	12 × 12 in ready-made	16 × 16 in ready-made	18 × 18 in custom	712 dpi, crisp up close
16 × 16 in	trims 0.2 %	16 × 16 in	16 × 16 in ready-made	20 × 20 in ready-made	22 × 22 in custom	534 dpi, crisp up close
20 × 20 in	trims 0.2 %	20 × 20 in	20 × 20 in ready-made	24 × 24 in ready-made	26 × 26 in custom	427 dpi, crisp up close
24 × 24 in	trims 0.2 %	24 × 24 in	24 × 24 in ready-made	28 × 28 in custom	30 × 30 in custom	356 dpi, crisp 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 × 559 px from Room Paintings
Web image 843 × 842 px from National Gallery of Art
Print file 2,000 × 1,997 px from National Gallery of Art
Original file 8,561 × 8,550 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.