Study for the Ceiling of the Marquand Music Room

Frederic Leighton (British, 1830–1896)

Date: ca. 1886
Medium: Oil and gold on canvas
Size: 12 × 17 in (30.5 × 43.2 cm)
Museum: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, accession 2021.10.2. See the museum’s record
Credit: Bequest of James David Draper, from the Robert Isaacson Collection, 2019

Public domain image courtesy of The Metropolitan Museum of Art (Open Access, CC0).

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Where Print size

Print: 12 × 27½ in, the whole painting on 12 × 36 in paper
Center: 58 in (147 cm) from the floor

12 × 27½ in panoramic print (30 × 70 cm), centered 58 in from the floor. Drawn to scale on a 12 × 8 ft wall.

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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 38.9 %	3 × 7 in	5 × 7 in ready-made	9 × 11 in custom	11 × 13 in custom	563 dpi, crisp up close
12 × 16 in	trims 41.8 %	7 × 16 in	12 × 16 in ready-made	16 × 20 in ready-made	18 × 22 in custom	249 dpi, crisp from a step back
12 × 36 in	trims 23.7 %	12 × 27½ in	12 × 36 in custom	16 × 40 in custom	18 × 42 in custom	145 dpi, soft up close
20 × 30 in	trims 34.5 %	13 × 30 in	20 × 30 in ready-made	24 × 34 in custom	26 × 36 in custom	133 dpi, soft up close
24 × 36 in	trims 34.5 %	15¾ × 36 in	24 × 36 in ready-made	28 × 40 in custom	30 × 42 in custom	111 dpi, soft up close
20 × 60 in	trims 23.7 %	20 × 45¾ 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) 560 × 245 px from Room Paintings
Web image 600 × 262 px from The Met
Print and original file 4,000 × 1,748 px from The Met
The museum’s record of this painting The Met

Public domain image courtesy of The Metropolitan Museum 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.