The record behind the sheet in your tube: the file we worked from, what we measured, what we chose and why, what we are allowed to sell, and the framing dimensions for this sheet.
Framing this sheet
- 40 × 50 cm sheet
- A 40 × 50 cm frame, no mat. Nearest standard 16 × 20 in. Margins 5.00 cm each side, 4.04 above, 4.65 below.
- 50 × 70 cm sheet
- A 50 × 70 cm frame. Nearest standard 20 × 28 in. Margins 5.00 cm each side, 6.93 above, 7.98 below.
- If you mat it
- Go one frame size up and cut the window three millimetres inside the printed image on every side: 29.40 × 40.72 cm for the small sheet, 39.40 × 54.49 cm for the large one. Off-white or warm white board, acid-free. Do not trim the sheet.
The sheet you have
- Work
- Anders Zorn (Swedish, 1860–1920), Midsommardans (Midsummer Dance), 1897
- Object
- Oil on canvas, 140 × 98 cm (as catalogued).
- Held by
- Nationalmuseum, Stockholm
- Inventory
- NM 1603 (object 18607)
- Rights
- Public domain — the museum provides the photograph freely through its public media portal
- File
- Nationalmuseum, at high resolution, taken directly from the institution's own media portal and not from an aggregator
- Crop
- None. We print the complete file the museum publishes, corner to corner.
The picture Zorn made
Couples turn round a maypole hung with a Swedish flag while musicians and onlookers in traditional Dalarna dress crowd the grass around them; behind the dancers a red farmhouse catches the low, warm light of the Nordic midsummer night, hours from any real darkness. Zorn painted the scene after sunset in June and July 1897, working fast in the long summer twilight to hold the light he wanted. He had returned to his native Dalarna the year before and thrown himself into preserving the region's folk culture — he had just given the village of Mora a new maypole of its own. This canvas is less an outdoor genre scene than a record of a festival he was actively trying to keep alive.
What we measured at the edges
The museum's master file (5265 × 7251 px) is anchored here on the catalogued width of 98 cm, the dimension we hold with confidence. At that anchor the height comes out to about 135.0 cm — 3.7 % under the catalogued 140 cm. We record this as a measured deviation and do not stretch the file to match the catalogue; both print files keep the file's own proportions.
What we printed
40 × 50 cm sheet: image 30.00 × 41.32 cm, reduced 0.31× original, margins 5.00 cm each side, 4.04 cm top, 4.65 cm bottom. Print file 4724 × 5906 px, 300 dpi.
50 × 70 cm sheet: image 40.00 × 55.09 cm, reduced 0.41× original, margins 5.00 cm each side, 6.93 cm top, 7.98 cm bottom. Print file 5906 × 8268 px, 300 dpi.
Both files carry an embedded dpi tag from the source (446 and 334 respectively) — that value is file metadata only, not the printed resolution; every sheet here is built flat at 300 dpi.
What we are allowed to sell
Zorn died in 1920 and the painting was made in 1897, so the work has long been in the public domain in Switzerland, the EU, the United Kingdom and the United States. The Nationalmuseum makes the photograph itself freely available through its public media portal; the only condition is the credit line "Foto: Cecilia Heisser / Nationalmuseum", which we carry. Confirmed by Jenny Phan, Bildsamordnare / Image Coordinator at the Nationalmuseum, by e-mail on 22 September 2026 (ticket 70651). Markets checked: Switzerland, the EU, the United Kingdom, the United States. Clear in all four. Nothing on this print uses the museum's name as a mark of origin.
Please measure before you buy or cut a mat. These figures describe the file we print from. Sheets are cut by machine to about a millimetre and frames vary between makers. We replace a print that arrives damaged or wrong; we cannot replace a frame or mat that turns out not to fit.
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