Gates of the Yosemite

Albert Bierstadt (American, 1830–1902)

Date: ca. 1882
Medium: oil on paper mounted on canvas
Size: 14 × 20 in (35.6 × 50.8 cm)
Museum: Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington, accession 2006.1.1. See the museum’s record
Credit: Smithsonian American Art Museum, Bequest of Marvin J. and Shirley F. Sonosky in memory of Harryette Cohn

Public domain image courtesy of the Smithsonian American Art Museum (Smithsonian Open Access, CC0).

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Hang it

Pick the furniture and a print size to see it to scale on your wall.

Where Print size

Print: 24 × 36 in, filling the paper (trims 4.9 % of the picture)
Center: 55¼ in (140 cm) from the floor
Above the sofa: 8 in (20 cm) from the sofa to the frame
Ideal width: 56 to 63 in over an 84 in sofa
Why this height: Centered at eye level, this frame would not sit 6 to 10 in above the sofa, so the 8 in gap sets the height.

24 × 36 in landscape print (61 × 91 cm), centered 55¼ in from the floor, 8 in above the sofa. Drawn to scale on a 12 × 8 ft wall.

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Print it

Standard paper sizes that keep this painting’s proportions, the frames that fit them, and how sharp each one prints.

Paper	Filling the paper	Printed whole	Frame	Frame with a 2 in mat	Frame with a 3 in mat	Sharpness
5 × 7 in	trims 1.9 %	5 × 7 in	5 × 7 in ready-made	9 × 11 in custom	11 × 13 in custom	428 dpi, crisp up close
20 × 30 in	trims 4.9 %	20 × 28½ in	20 × 30 in ready-made	24 × 34 in custom	26 × 36 in custom	100 dpi, soft up close
24 × 36 in	trims 4.9 %	24 × 34¼ in	24 × 36 in ready-made	28 × 40 in custom	30 × 42 in custom	83 dpi, soft up close

Sharpness is worked out from the largest file the museum offers. Above 300 dpi a print holds up at arm’s length; 150 dpi is plenty for a picture seen from across a sofa.

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Free for any use, including commercial: this image is public domain (CC0).

Thumbnail (WebP) 560 × 411 px from Room Paintings
Web image 843 × 618 px from Smithsonian American Art Museum
Print file 2,000 × 1,467 px from Smithsonian American Art Museum
Original file 3,000 × 2,200 px from Smithsonian American Art Museum
The museum’s record of this painting Smithsonian American Art Museum

Public domain image courtesy of the Smithsonian American Art Museum (Smithsonian Open Access, CC0). You may print, share, change and sell it without asking. Read what that means on our image license page, and how to get a good result in how to print a public-domain painting.