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
- Edvard Munch (Norwegian, 1863–1944), Starry Night, 1893
- Object
- Oil on canvas, 135.9 × 140.3 cm
- Held by
- The J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles
- Accession
- 84.PA.681 (object 103RGH)
- File
- Getty IIIF, 8000 × 7763 px used (native 9799 × 9509)
- Crop
- None — the whole file is printed
- Printed at
- 345 dpi at 70 × 70 cm · 484 dpi at 50 × 50 cm
Which painting, and why this one
Not the Van Gogh. Munch painted his own Starry Night in Åsgårdstrand in 1893, the same year as The Scream and from the same summer coastline: the linden hedge on the shore, the pale Norwegian sky that never quite goes dark, and a shape at the fence that may be a shadow of two people. The Getty bought it in 1984 and it is the only Munch painting of this rank in an American collection.
Because Munch died in 1944, this picture was under copyright until 1 January 2015 in Europe. It has been free for ten years and not much longer, which is worth knowing when you see how few reproductions of it were around before then.
What we measured
All four edges of the file are painted surface — no studio floor, no stretcher bar, no unpainted ground. So there is nothing to crop: the whole file is printed, edge to edge. The file's ratio is 1.0305 against the museum's catalogued 140.3 / 135.9 = 1.0324, a 0.2 % agreement.
The canvas is very nearly square, so the sheet is square too. We do not stretch a picture into a shape it wasn't.
We used the 8000 px rendition rather than the full 9799 px because it downloads reliably; at our sizes that still leaves 345 and 484 dpi, both well above our 300 dpi floor. No upscaling.
A note on scale
This was the first painting in our catalogue and it forced a decision we now apply to all of them. For works on paper, 1:1 is the anchor and we refuse reductions below half size, because a heavily shrunk sheet misrepresents the object. A poster after a canvas is a reduction by definition — there is no 1:1 step available — so that floor does not apply. Instead we name the factor: this sheet is 0.42× or 0.30× of the painting, and we print that on the product page rather than letting you assume otherwise.
What we are allowed to sell
The original. Munch died in 1944; the European term expired on 1 January 2015. Painted and exhibited in 1893, so public domain in the US as well.
The digitisation. The J. Paul Getty Museum releases photographs of its public-domain works under CC0 through its Open Content Program — commercial use without restriction or fee, no attribution required. We attribute anyway. File taken from the museum's own IIIF endpoint (media.getty.edu), not from an aggregator.
Our file. The tonal work and the border are ours. We sell you a print of it; we do not sell you the rights to it.
Rights checked 1 September 2026.
Framing this sheet
- 70 × 70 cm
- Image 58.80 × 57.06 cm, 0.42× original. Margins 5.60 cm sides / 6.02 cm top / 6.92 cm bottom
- 50 × 50 cm
- Image 42.00 × 40.76 cm, 0.30× original. Margins 4.00 cm sides / 4.30 cm top / 4.94 cm bottom
- Orientation
- Both sheets are square
- Frame
- 50 × 50 cm and 70 × 70 cm are stocked square sizes across Europe. Nearest imperial: 20 × 20 in and 28 × 28 in
- Passepartout
- Optional. The printed border already gives the sheet air. If you want a mount as well, go one frame size up rather than cutting into the border
- Glazing
- The picture is built almost entirely out of dark blues, which mirror the room under glass — anti-reflective glazing makes a real difference 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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