Ruin by the Sea

Arnold Böcklin (Swiss, 1827–1901)

Date: 1881
Medium: oil on fabric
Size: 43¾ × 32¼ in (111 × 82 cm)
Museum: Cleveland Museum of Art, accession 1979.57. See the museum’s record
Credit: Mr. and Mrs. William H. Marlatt Fund

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

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Where Print size

Print: 18 × 24 in, filling the paper (trims 1.5 % of the picture)
Center: 58 in (147 cm) above the stair line

18 × 24 in portrait print (46 × 61 cm), centered 58 in above the stair line. 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 3.3 %	5 × 6¾ in	5 × 7 in ready-made	9 × 11 in custom	11 × 13 in custom	832 dpi, crisp up close
12 × 16 in	trims 1.5 %	11¾ × 16 in	12 × 16 in ready-made	16 × 20 in ready-made	18 × 22 in custom	356 dpi, crisp up close
18 × 24 in	trims 1.5 %	17¾ × 24 in	18 × 24 in ready-made	22 × 28 in ready-made	24 × 30 in ready-made	237 dpi, crisp from a step back
30 × 40 in	trims 1.5 %	29½ × 40 in	30 × 40 in ready-made	34 × 44 in custom	36 × 46 in custom	142 dpi, soft up close
36 × 48 in	trims 1.5 %	35½ × 48 in	36 × 48 in ready-made	40 × 52 in custom	42 × 54 in custom	118 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) 411 × 560 px from Room Paintings
Web image 656 × 893 px from Cleveland Museum of Art
Print file 2,498 × 3,400 px from Cleveland Museum of Art
Original file 4,282 × 5,829 px from Cleveland Museum of Art
The museum’s record of this painting Cleveland Museum of Art

Public domain image courtesy of the Cleveland Museum of Art (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.