Dog Lying in the Snow
Franz Marc, 1911
No print size passed the check for this piece: at 10 x 8 in, Wrong shape: a 26% crop. We would rather show it than sell a soft print.
See pieces like it you can buyMarc's own dog Russi lies folded into a snowbank, painted in planes of white, cream, and violet shadow. The Blue Rider painter believed animals saw the world more purely than people, and this canvas is that creed at rest.
- Maker
- Franz Marc
- Date
- 1911
- Medium of the original
- Oil on canvas
- Original held by
- Städel Museum, Frankfurt
- Credit
- Städel Museum, Frankfurt · via Wikimedia Commons
- Rights
- Public domain, verified
- Catalogue number
- PA-01862
Before a size goes on sale, the file is measured against it: pixels per inch at that size, how much of the picture a crop would lose, tone and sharpness. A size that fails is not offered, so there is nothing to choose wrong.
| Size | Why |
|---|---|
| 10 x 8 in | Wrong shape: a 26% crop |
| 12 x 8 in | Wrong shape: a 12% crop |
| 14 x 11 in | Wrong shape: a 25% crop |
| 16 x 12 in | Wrong shape: a 22% crop |
| 18 x 12 in | Wrong shape: a 12% crop |
| 20 x 16 in | Wrong shape: a 26% crop |
| 24 x 16 in | Wrong shape: a 12% crop |
| 24 x 18 in | Wrong shape: a 22% crop |
| 30 x 20 in | Wrong shape: a 12% crop |
| 30 x 24 in | Wrong shape: a 26% crop |
| 36 x 24 in | Wrong shape: a 12% crop |
| 40 x 30 in | Wrong shape: a 22% crop |
| 48 x 36 in | Wrong shape: a 22% crop |
| 60 x 40 in | Wrong shape: a 12% crop |
- Scanned
- 2026-10-07
- Master file
- 1,920 x 1,129 px, srgb
- Tone
- Darks 61, lights 220 of 255; 0% clipped light, 0% clipped dark
- Colour
- 0% vivid
- Sharpness
- 184.1
- Notes
- Neutrals lean toward green: the paper and varnish of the original, kept as scanned
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