A Man Leaning on a Parapet

Georges Seurat (French, 1859–1891)

Date: ca. 1881
Medium: Oil on wood
Size: 6½ × 5 in (16.5 × 12.4 cm)
Museum: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, accession 2019.141.17. See the museum’s record
Credit: Bequest of Mrs. Charles Wrightsman, 2019

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

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Where Print size

Print: 18 × 24 in, filling the paper (trims 0.3 % of the picture)
Center: 58 in (147 cm) above the stair line

18 × 24 in portrait print (46 × 61 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 %	5 × 6½ in	5 × 7 in ready-made	9 × 11 in custom	11 × 13 in custom	571 dpi, crisp up close
11 × 14 in	trims 4.3 %	10½ × 14 in	11 × 14 in ready-made	15 × 18 in custom	17 × 20 in custom	279 dpi, crisp from a step back
12 × 16 in	trims 0.3 %	12 × 16 in	12 × 16 in ready-made	16 × 20 in ready-made	18 × 22 in custom	250 dpi, crisp from a step back
18 × 24 in	trims 0.3 %	18 × 24 in	18 × 24 in ready-made	22 × 28 in ready-made	24 × 30 in ready-made	166 dpi, crisp from a step back
30 × 40 in	trims 0.3 %	30 × 40 in	30 × 40 in ready-made	34 × 44 in custom	36 × 46 in custom	100 dpi, soft up close
36 × 48 in	trims 0.3 %	36 × 48 in	36 × 48 in ready-made	40 × 52 in custom	42 × 54 in custom	83 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) 431 × 560 px from Room Paintings
Web image 480 × 624 px from The Met
Print and original file 3,076 × 4,000 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.