Painted with loose, visible brushstrokes mostly in shades of spring green, sky blue, straw yellow, and ivory white, four couples lock in intense embraces across a landscape in front of a body of water in this nearly square painting.

The Battle of Love

Paul Cézanne (French, 1839–1906)

Date: c. 1880
Medium: oil on canvas
Size: 15 × 18 in (38 × 46 cm)
Museum: National Gallery of Art, Washington, accession 1972.9.2. See the museum’s record
Credit: Gift of the W. Averell Harriman Foundation in memory of Marie N. Harriman

Public domain image courtesy of the National Gallery of Art (Open Access, CC0).

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Hang it

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

Where Print size

Print: 16 × 20 in, filling the paper (trims 3.1 % of the picture)
Center: 47¼ in (120 cm) from the floor
Above the console table: 8 in (20 cm) from the console table to the frame
Ideal width: 36 to 41 in over a 54 in console table
Why this height: Centered at eye level, this frame would not sit 6 to 10 in above the console table, so the 8 in gap sets the height.

16 × 20 in landscape print (41 × 51 cm), centered 47¼ in from the floor, 8 in above the console table. Drawn to scale on a 12 × 8 ft wall.

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Print it

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
8 × 10 in	trims 3.1 %	8 × 9¾ in	8 × 10 in ready-made	12 × 14 in custom	14 × 16 in custom	1462 dpi, crisp up close
11 × 14 in	trims 4.8 %	11 × 13¼ in	11 × 14 in ready-made	15 × 18 in custom	17 × 20 in custom	1044 dpi, crisp up close
16 × 20 in	trims 3.1 %	16 × 19½ in	16 × 20 in ready-made	20 × 24 in ready-made	22 × 26 in custom	731 dpi, crisp 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 × 459 px from Room Paintings
Web image 843 × 691 px from National Gallery of Art
Print file 2,000 × 1,639 px from National Gallery of Art
Original file 14,622 × 11,980 px from National Gallery of Art
The museum’s record of this painting National Gallery of Art

Public domain image courtesy of the National Gallery 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.