The Girl by the Window
1893 · Oil on canvas · Art Institute of Chicago
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About this work
- Artist
- Edvard Munch (1863–1944)
- Year
- 1893
- Medium
- Oil on canvas
- Original size
- 96.5 × 65.4 cm
- Collection
- Art Institute of Chicago
- Movement
- Symbolism
A girl in a long pale nightdress stands at a tall window in a dark room, one hand drawing back the lace curtain as she looks out at the night, while moonlight lays two glowing rectangles on the steeply tilted floor. A rounded piece of furniture looms in the shadow at the right. Munch painted it in 1893, one of a group of night scenes in blue tones from the early 1890s; around then he wrote that artists should paint living people who breathe and feel, suffer and love. We never see her face or what she watches. It is in the Art Institute of Chicago.
This full-bleed edition prints the work edge to edge from a high-resolution scan of the original, very slightly cropped (a few percent at most) to fit the sheet. The gallery edition shows the whole work, uncropped. The original is in the public domain.
Where it works
Blue, violet and soft pink make a quiet nocturne for a bedroom or a landing by a window. Pair it with Interior, Sunlight on the Floor by Hammershøi, another empty room and window light, at 16×24 in a dark wood frame.
Style, size & framing detail
- Style
- Symbolism painting
- Era
- 19th century (1893)
- Orientation
- Portrait
- Mood
- calm
- Rooms
- bedroom, hallway or entryway, living room, dining room
- Good gift for
- housewarming, art lovers
Size. We'd hang this one at 16×24. Prints at 12×18, 16×24, 24×36 in — 12×18 for a shelf, desk or a gallery-wall grid; 16×24 above a desk, console or in a hallway; 24×36 as the statement piece above a sofa or bed.
Framing. Printed edge to edge: a slim black or dark wood frame right to the image, or let the canvas wrap do the framing. Also available gallery-wrapped on canvas, ready to hang with no frame.
Pairing. Pairs as a set of three with other famous painting prints (10% off three or more).
Details & materials
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About this design
The Madten promise
An exhibition poster
The same artwork as a gallery exhibition poster — title, artist & date typeset beneath the image on a soft ground.
A fine-art print
The same artwork as a clean fine-art print — the image shown large with a minimal caption.
