Oedipus and the Sphinx

Gustave Moreau (French, 1826–1898)

Date: 1864
Medium: Oil on canvas
Size: 81¼ × 41¼ in (206.4 × 104.8 cm)
Museum: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, accession 21.134.1. See the museum’s record
Credit: Bequest of William H. Herriman, 1920

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

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Pick the furniture and a print size to see it to scale on your wall.

Where Print size

Print: 20 × 39½ in, the whole painting on 20 × 60 in paper
Center: 58 in (147 cm) from the floor

20 × 39½ in portrait print (51 × 100 cm), centered 58 in from the floor. Drawn to scale on a 12 × 8 ft wall.

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Print it

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 28.9 %	3½ × 7 in	5 × 7 in ready-made	9 × 11 in custom	11 × 13 in custom	571 dpi, crisp up close
12 × 16 in	trims 32.3 %	8 × 16 in	12 × 16 in ready-made	16 × 20 in ready-made	18 × 22 in custom	250 dpi, crisp from a step back
12 × 36 in	trims 34.4 %	12 × 23½ in	12 × 36 in custom	16 × 40 in custom	18 × 42 in custom	169 dpi, crisp from a step back
20 × 30 in	trims 23.8 %	15¼ × 30 in	20 × 30 in ready-made	24 × 34 in custom	26 × 36 in custom	133 dpi, soft up close
24 × 36 in	trims 23.8 %	18¼ × 36 in	24 × 36 in ready-made	28 × 40 in custom	30 × 42 in custom	111 dpi, soft up close
20 × 60 in	trims 34.4 %	20 × 39½ in	20 × 60 in custom	24 × 64 in custom	26 × 66 in custom	101 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) 290 × 560 px from Room Paintings
Web image 323 × 624 px from The Met
Print and original file 2,072 × 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.