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
- Vincent van Gogh (Dutch, 1853–1890), The Poet's Garden, 1888
- Object
- Oil on canvas, 73 × 92.1 cm
- Held by
- Art Institute of Chicago, Mr. and Mrs. Lewis Larned Coburn Memorial Collection
- Accession
- 1933.433 (object 14586)
- File
- AIC IIIF, 12637 × 9982 px native
- Crop
- None — the whole file is printed
- Printed at
- 764 dpi at 50 × 40 cm · 503 dpi at 80 × 60 cm
Which painting, and why this one
The garden is the public park in Arles across the road from the Yellow House, and Van Gogh painted it for the room he was preparing for Paul Gauguin — the poet of the title. That reading is the museum's own, published in its essay on Van Gogh and solitude. It is a picture made as a welcome for someone who had not arrived yet, which is worth knowing when you look at how empty the path is.
Provenance runs from Johanna van Gogh-Bonger, the artist's sister-in-law, through several European galleries to Annie Swan Coburn in Chicago by 1928, and to the Art Institute by bequest in 1933 — the same Chicago collection that gave the museum our Sargent watercolour. It has been exhibited since 1893, including MoMA's 1930 retrospective and the Art Institute's Van Gogh and Gauguin: The Studio of the South in 2001–02.
What we measured
We profiled five columns and five rows at each of the four edges of a 2400 px rendition: means 86–87 left, 84–90 right, 120–125 top, 63–66 bottom, with spreads of 22 to 185 throughout. Painted surface on every edge — no studio ground, no frame. So there is no crop: the whole file is printed.
Ratio 9982 / 12637 = 0.78990 against the catalogued 73 / 92.1 = 0.79262 — 0.34 %, inside the museum's rounding.
This sheet is paper-bound, not file-bound. At 300 dpi the file would carry a print 107 cm wide; our largest sheet stops the picture long before the pixels do. That is the opposite of our Blechen, where the file was the limit. Because the canvas ratio (0.790) sits between our sheet ratios, the height of the paper sets the picture on both sizes and the side borders come out wider. The 50 × 40 sheet at 0.80 is the closest fit in the whole ladder, and therefore the most evenly bordered size for this painting.
What we are allowed to sell
The original. Van Gogh died in 1890; the European term expired in 1961. Painted in 1888 and exhibited from 1893, so public domain in the US as well.
The digitisation. The Art Institute of Chicago releases it under Creative Commons Zero (CC0); its API reports is_public_domain: true and an empty copyright notice for this object. Commercial use expressly permitted, caption requested rather than required. File taken from the museum's own IIIF endpoint, 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
- 50 × 40 cm
- Image 42.00 × 33.18 cm, 0.46× original. Margins 4.00 cm sides / 3.17 cm top / 3.65 cm bottom
- 80 × 60 cm
- Image 63.80 × 50.39 cm, 0.69× original. Margins 8.10 cm sides / 4.47 cm top / 5.14 cm bottom
- Orientation
- Both sheets are landscape
- Frame
- A standard 50 × 40 cm or 80 × 60 cm frame takes the sheet as printed, no trimming. Nearest imperial: 20 × 16 in and 32 × 24 in
- Passepartout
- Optional, and least needed on the 80 × 60, whose printed side margins are already 8 cm. If you want a mount, go one frame size up rather than cutting into the border
- Glazing
- This is the greenest sheet we sell — 85 % of its coloured area is green, measured. UV filtering keeps that from drifting yellow
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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