This painting presents a series of curved and bending lines intersecting with each other in an abstract pattern. The lines create a design resembling tree branches and leafy canopies.

Weasels at Play

Franz Marc (German, 1880–1916)

Date: 1911
Medium: oil on canvas
Size: 39¾ × 26¾ in (101 × 68 cm)
Museum: National Gallery of Art, Washington, accession 2020.112.2. See the museum’s record
Credit: Collection of Arnold and Joan Saltzman

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

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Where Print size

Print: 24 × 36 in, filling the paper (trims 0.9 % 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
20 × 30 in	trims 0.9 %	20 × 29¾ in	20 × 30 in ready-made	24 × 34 in custom	26 × 36 in custom	824 dpi, crisp up close
24 × 36 in	trims 0.9 %	24 × 35¾ in	24 × 36 in ready-made	28 × 40 in custom	30 × 42 in custom	687 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) 369 × 560 px from Room Paintings
Web image 556 × 843 px from National Gallery of Art
Print file 1,319 × 2,000 px from National Gallery of Art
Original file 16,497 × 25,008 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.