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Dark portrait of older woman in black dress with lace collar, flowers.

Mère Grégoire

Gustave Courbet (French, 1819–1877)

Date
1855, reworked 1857–59
Medium
Oil on canvas
Size
50¾ × 38½ in (129 × 97.5 cm)
Museum
Art Institute of Chicago, accession 1930.78. See the museum’s record
Credit
Wilson L. Mead Fund

Public domain image courtesy of the Art Institute of Chicago (CC0).

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Print
18 × 24 in, filling the paper (trims 0.8 % of the picture)
Center
58 in (147 cm) above the stair line
Mère Grégoire: an 18 × 24 in print hung beside a staircase, drawn to scale on a 12 × 8 ft wall
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 % 5 × 6½ in 5 × 7 in ready-made 9 × 11 in custom 11 × 13 in custom 285 dpi, crisp from a step back
8 × 10 in trims 5.5 % 7½ × 10 in 8 × 10 in ready-made 12 × 14 in custom 14 × 16 in custom 186 dpi, crisp from a step back
11 × 14 in trims 3.8 % 10½ × 14 in 11 × 14 in ready-made 15 × 18 in custom 17 × 20 in custom 135 dpi, soft up close
12 × 16 in trims 0.8 % 12 × 16 in 12 × 16 in ready-made 16 × 20 in ready-made 18 × 22 in custom 124 dpi, soft up close
16 × 20 in trims 5.5 % 15 × 20 in 16 × 20 in ready-made 20 × 24 in ready-made 22 × 26 in custom 93 dpi, soft up close
18 × 24 in trims 0.8 % 18 × 23¾ in 18 × 24 in ready-made 22 × 28 in ready-made 24 × 30 in ready-made 83 dpi, soft up close
30 × 40 in trims 0.8 % 30 × 39¾ in 30 × 40 in ready-made 34 × 44 in custom 36 × 46 in custom 49 dpi, soft up close
36 × 48 in trims 0.8 % 36 × 47½ in 36 × 48 in ready-made 40 × 52 in custom 42 × 54 in custom 41 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).

Public domain image courtesy of the Art Institute of Chicago (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.

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