Children Teaching a Cat to Dance, Known as The Dancing Lesson

Jan Steen (Dutch, 1625–1679)

Date: 1660 - 1679
Medium: oil on panel
Size: 27 × 23¼ in (68.5 × 59 cm)
Museum: Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam, accession SK-A-718. See the museum’s record
Credit: Jonkheer J.S.H. van de Poll Bequest, Amsterdam

Public domain image courtesy of the Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam (Public Domain Mark).

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Where Print size

Print: 18 × 21 in, the whole painting on 18 × 24 in paper
Center: 58 in (147 cm) above the stair line

18 × 21 in portrait print (46 × 53 cm), centered 58 in above the stair line. 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
8 × 10 in	trims 7.1 %	8 × 9¼ in	8 × 10 in ready-made	12 × 14 in custom	14 × 16 in custom	578 dpi, crisp up close
11 × 14 in	trims 8.7 %	11 × 12¾ in	11 × 14 in ready-made	15 × 18 in custom	17 × 20 in custom	420 dpi, crisp up close
12 × 16 in	trims 12.9 %	12 × 14 in	12 × 16 in ready-made	16 × 20 in ready-made	18 × 22 in custom	386 dpi, crisp up close
16 × 20 in	trims 7.1 %	16 × 18½ in	16 × 20 in ready-made	20 × 24 in ready-made	22 × 26 in custom	289 dpi, crisp from a step back
18 × 24 in	trims 12.9 %	18 × 21 in	18 × 24 in ready-made	22 × 28 in ready-made	24 × 30 in ready-made	257 dpi, crisp from a step back
30 × 40 in	trims 12.9 %	30 × 34¾ in	30 × 40 in ready-made	34 × 44 in custom	36 × 46 in custom	154 dpi, crisp from a step back

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 (Public Domain Mark).

Thumbnail (WebP) 482 × 560 px from Room Paintings
Web image 726 × 843 px from Rijksmuseum
Print file 1,723 × 2,000 px from Rijksmuseum
Original file 4,632 × 5,377 px from Rijksmuseum
The museum’s record of this painting Rijksmuseum

Public domain image courtesy of the Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam (Public Domain Mark). 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.