Five women, all with brown skin, sit and stand in a landscape painted with tones of emerald green, mauve pink, lilac and plum purple, and cobalt blue in this horizontal composition.

The Invocation

Paul Gauguin (French, 1848–1903)

Date: 1903
Medium: oil on canvas
Size: 25¾ × 29¾ in (65.5 × 75.6 cm)
Museum: National Gallery of Art, Washington, accession 1976.63.1. See the museum’s record
Credit: Gift from the Collection of John and Louise Booth in memory of their daughter Winkie

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: 17¼ × 20 in, the whole painting on 20 × 20 in paper
Center: 66 in (167 cm) from the floor
Above the headboard: 8 in (20 cm) from the headboard to the frame
Ideal width: 40 to 45 in over a 60 in headboard
Why this height: Centered at eye level, this frame would not sit 6 to 10 in above the headboard, so the 8 in gap sets the height.

17¼ × 20 in landscape print (44 × 51 cm), centered 66 in from the floor, 8 in above the headboard. 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
8 × 10 in	trims 7.7 %	8 × 9¼ in	8 × 10 in ready-made	12 × 14 in custom	14 × 16 in custom	3884 dpi, crisp up close
12 × 12 in	trims 13.3 %	10½ × 12 in	12 × 12 in ready-made	16 × 16 in ready-made	18 × 18 in custom	2980 dpi, crisp up close
11 × 14 in	trims 9.3 %	11 × 12¾ in	11 × 14 in ready-made	15 × 18 in custom	17 × 20 in custom	2815 dpi, crisp up close
16 × 16 in	trims 13.3 %	14 × 16 in	16 × 16 in ready-made	20 × 20 in ready-made	22 × 22 in custom	2235 dpi, crisp up close
16 × 20 in	trims 7.7 %	16 × 18½ in	16 × 20 in ready-made	20 × 24 in ready-made	22 × 26 in custom	1933 dpi, crisp up close
20 × 20 in	trims 13.3 %	17¼ × 20 in	20 × 20 in ready-made	24 × 24 in ready-made	26 × 26 in custom	1788 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 × 487 px from Room Paintings
Web image 843 × 733 px from National Gallery of Art
Print file 2,000 × 1,738 px from National Gallery of Art
Original file 35,762 × 31,075 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.