This is the record for the sheet you bought: which original it comes from, how it was digitised, what we did to the file, and what we are allowed to sell. Nothing here is marketing. It is the paperwork.
The sheet you have
- Work
- Claude Monet (French, 1840–1926), Stacks of Wheat (Sunset, Snow Effect), 1890–91. Inscribed lower right: Claude Monet 91
- Object
- Oil on canvas, 65.3 × 100.4 cm
- Held by
- Art Institute of Chicago, Potter Palmer Collection
- Accession
- 1922.431 (AIC object 81545)
- File
- AIC IIIF, 6031 × 3896 px native
- Crop
- None — the whole file is printed
- Printed at
- 365 dpi at 50 × 40 cm · 300 dpi at 70 × 50 cm
Which painting, and why this one
A single stack of threshed wheat in a field under snow, the sun going down behind it. Monet worked at the stacks near his house at Giverny through the winter of 1890–91, returning to the same shapes as the light moved across them; the Art Institute of Chicago holds six canvases from the group. This is the sunset with snow.
It did not sit in the studio. Durand-Ruel bought it from the artist in Paris on 20 July 1891 for 3,200 francs, entered as Meules, effet de neige, soleil couchant in the Paris stock book for 1891–1901 (no. 1075). It went to the New York house on 30 October 1891 and to Potter Palmer of Chicago on 29 February 1892 for $1,300 (New York stock book 1888–1893, no. 847). The Durand-Ruel Archives confirmed both entries to the museum on 5 February 2013. The Palmer family gave the picture to the Art Institute in 1922.
What we measured
Border medians run 126–144 on all four edges of the museum's file — painted surface everywhere, no studio ground, no frame. Nothing is trimmed and nothing is added; the whole file is printed.
The anchor: 6031 px across 100.4 cm is 60.07 px/cm, 3896 px down 65.3 cm is 59.66 px/cm — 0.68 % apart, working anchor 59.86 px/cm. The file ratio 1.5480 differs from the catalogued 1.5375 by the same 0.68 %, in the same direction. Two axes that disagree by different amounts mean a wrong anchor; two that disagree by the same amount mean a canvas measured to the nearest millimetre a century ago. This is the second kind.
Where the large sheet stops, and why. Our house rule gives the image 84 % of the sheet width, which on a 70 cm sheet would be 58.80 cm. The file will not carry it: 6031 px across 58.80 cm is 261 dpi, below our floor. So the width is set by the file rather than the sheet — 51.06 cm, which is 300 dpi to the pixel. The large sheet prints the museum's file at native size, one file pixel to one printed pixel, and that is also why there is no third size. Enlarging it would mean inventing pixels.
What we are allowed to sell
The original. Monet died in 1926; the European, British and Swiss term ran out on 1 January 1997. The picture was sold commercially in Paris in July 1891 and in New York from that October, so it is public domain in the United States by a wide margin.
The digitisation. The Art Institute of Chicago releases images of public-domain works in its collection under CC0; commercial use is expressly permitted and a caption is requested but not required. The museum's API returns is_public_domain: true for object 81545. File taken from the museum's own IIIF endpoint (www.artic.edu/iiif/2), not from an aggregator.
Our file. The placement and the border are ours. We sell you a print of it; we do not sell you the rights to it.
Rights checked 3 September 2026.
Framing this sheet
- 50 × 40 cm
- Image 42.00 × 27.14 cm, 0.42× original. Margins 4.00 cm sides / 5.99 cm top / 6.87 cm bottom
- 70 × 50 cm
- Image 51.06 × 32.99 cm, 0.51× original. Margins 9.47 cm sides / 7.92 cm top / 9.10 cm bottom
- Orientation
- Both sheets are landscape
- Frame
- A standard 50 × 40 cm or 70 × 50 cm frame takes the sheet as printed, no trimming. Nearest imperial: 20 × 16 in and 28 × 20 in
- Passepartout
- Optional. The printed border already gives the sheet air — on the large sheet it is generous by design, because the file sets the image width there. If you want a mount as well, go one frame size up rather than cutting into the border
- Glazing
- The picture lives on small differences between blue, violet and orange. Plain glass reflects a room over exactly that range; anti-reflective glazing is the single change that helps most here
Measure your frame before you order. Frame sizes vary between makers, and some frames have a rebate that swallows several millimetres on each side. We give the exact printed dimensions above so you can check; we cannot take responsibility for a frame that turns out not to fit.
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