Forest Scene

Barend Cornelis Koekkoek (Dutch, 1803–1862)

Date: 1848
Medium: oil on canvas
Size: 53½ × 63 in (136 × 160 cm)
Museum: Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam, accession SK-A-1546. See the museum’s record
Credit: Gift of C.C.A., Baron du Bois de Ferrières, Cheltenham

Public domain image courtesy of the Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam (Public Domain Mark).

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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: 30 × 35¼ in, the whole painting on 30 × 40 in paper
Center: 72¼ in (184 cm) from the floor
Above the headboard: 8 in (20 cm) from the headboard to the frame
Ideal width: 40 to 45 in over a 60 in headboard
Why this height: Centered at eye level, this frame would not sit 6 to 10 in above the headboard, so the 8 in gap sets the height.

30 × 35¼ in landscape print (76 × 90 cm), centered 72¼ in from the floor, 8 in above the headboard. Drawn to scale on a 12 × 8 ft wall.

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Print it

No standard paper matches this painting’s proportions closely, so print it whole with a white border, or trim the edges to fill the paper.

Paper	Filling the paper	Printed whole	Frame	Frame with a 2 in mat	Frame with a 3 in mat	Sharpness
8 × 10 in	trims 5.9 %	8 × 9½ in	8 × 10 in ready-made	12 × 14 in custom	14 × 16 in custom	584 dpi, crisp up close
11 × 14 in	trims 7.6 %	11 × 13 in	11 × 14 in ready-made	15 × 18 in custom	17 × 20 in custom	425 dpi, crisp up close
12 × 16 in	trims 11.8 %	12 × 14 in	12 × 16 in ready-made	16 × 20 in ready-made	18 × 22 in custom	389 dpi, crisp up close
16 × 20 in	trims 5.9 %	16 × 18¾ in	16 × 20 in ready-made	20 × 24 in ready-made	22 × 26 in custom	292 dpi, crisp from a step back
18 × 24 in	trims 11.8 %	18 × 21¼ in	18 × 24 in ready-made	22 × 28 in ready-made	24 × 30 in ready-made	259 dpi, crisp from a step back
30 × 40 in	trims 11.8 %	30 × 35¼ in	30 × 40 in ready-made	34 × 44 in custom	36 × 46 in custom	155 dpi, crisp from a step back

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 (Public Domain Mark).

Thumbnail (WebP) 560 × 476 px from Room Paintings
Web image 843 × 717 px from Rijksmuseum
Print file 2,000 × 1,701 px from Rijksmuseum
Original file 5,497 × 4,675 px from Rijksmuseum
The museum’s record of this painting Rijksmuseum

Public domain image courtesy of the Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam (Public Domain Mark). 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.