A young girl with medium skin wears a striking dress of black and white stripes with a short lace collar. Behind her is backdrop featuring symbols and native figures. Mangos sit beside her.

Merahi metua no Tehamana (Tehamana Has Many Parents or The Ancestors of Tehamana)

Paul Gauguin (French, 1848–1903)

Date: 1893
Medium: Oil on jute canvas
Size: 29½ × 20¾ in (75 × 53 cm)
Museum: Art Institute of Chicago, accession 1980.613. See the museum’s record
Credit: Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Charles Deering McCormick

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

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Where Print size

Print: 24 × 36 in, filling the paper (trims 5.7 % of the picture)
Center: 58 in (147 cm) above the stair line

24 × 36 in portrait print (61 × 91 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 1 %	5 × 7 in	5 × 7 in ready-made	9 × 11 in custom	11 × 13 in custom	281 dpi, crisp from a step back
20 × 30 in	trims 5.7 %	20 × 28¼ in	20 × 30 in ready-made	24 × 34 in custom	26 × 36 in custom	66 dpi, soft up close
24 × 36 in	trims 5.7 %	24 × 34 in	24 × 36 in ready-made	28 × 40 in custom	30 × 42 in custom	55 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) 394 × 560 px from Room Paintings
Web image 843 × 1,199 px from Art Institute of Chicago
Print file 1,406 × 2,000 px from Art Institute of Chicago
The museum’s record of this painting Art Institute of Chicago

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.