Girl Knitting

Bernardus Johannes Blommers (1845–1914)

Date: 1885 - 1886
Medium: oil on canvas
Size: 20 × 16 in (51 × 40.5 cm)
Museum: Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam, accession SK-A-1327. See the museum’s record

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

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Where Print size

Print: 18 × 24 in, filling the paper (trims 5.5 % 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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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
8 × 10 in	trims 0.7 %	8 × 10 in	8 × 10 in ready-made	12 × 14 in custom	14 × 16 in custom	684 dpi, crisp up close
11 × 14 in	trims 1 %	11 × 14 in	11 × 14 in ready-made	15 × 18 in custom	17 × 20 in custom	488 dpi, crisp up close
12 × 16 in	trims 5.5 %	12 × 15 in	12 × 16 in ready-made	16 × 20 in ready-made	18 × 22 in custom	427 dpi, crisp up close
16 × 20 in	trims 0.7 %	16 × 20 in	16 × 20 in ready-made	20 × 24 in ready-made	22 × 26 in custom	342 dpi, crisp up close
18 × 24 in	trims 5.5 %	18 × 22¾ in	18 × 24 in ready-made	22 × 28 in ready-made	24 × 30 in ready-made	285 dpi, crisp from a step back
30 × 40 in	trims 5.5 %	30 × 37¾ in	30 × 40 in ready-made	34 × 44 in custom	36 × 46 in custom	171 dpi, crisp from a step back
36 × 48 in	trims 5.5 %	36 × 45¼ in	36 × 48 in ready-made	40 × 52 in custom	42 × 54 in custom	142 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 (Public Domain Mark).

Thumbnail (WebP) 454 × 560 px from Room Paintings
Web image 684 × 843 px from Rijksmuseum
Print file 1,624 × 2,000 px from Rijksmuseum
Original file 5,557 × 6,844 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.