This tall, vertical painting shows two nude women next to each other, one standing and one sitting. The women both have light skin painted in shades of cream and pale yellow, with highlights of seafoam green, dark blue, and magenta.

Two Nudes [obverse]

Ernst Ludwig Kirchner (German, 1880–1938)

Date: 1907
Medium: oil on canvas
Size: 77¼ × 25¾ in (196.1 × 65.4 cm)
Museum: National Gallery of Art, Washington, accession 1979.66.1.a. See the museum’s record
Credit: Gift of Wilhelmina and Wallace F. Holladay and Ruth and Jacob Kainen

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

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Where Print size

Print: 20 × 60 in, filling the paper (trims 0.2 % of the picture)
Center: 58 in (147 cm) from the floor

20 × 60 in panoramic print (51 × 152 cm), centered 58 in from the floor. 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
12 × 36 in	trims 0.2 %	12 × 36 in	12 × 36 in custom	16 × 40 in custom	18 × 42 in custom	146 dpi, soft up close
20 × 60 in	trims 0.2 %	20 × 60 in	20 × 60 in custom	24 × 64 in custom	26 × 66 in custom	87 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) 187 × 560 px from Room Paintings
Web image 281 × 843 px from National Gallery of Art
Print file 666 × 2,000 px from National Gallery of Art
Original file 1,753 × 5,263 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.