Camille Corot Interrupted Reading, c. 1870
View of Lormes
Camille Corot (French, 1796–1875)
- Date
- early 1840s
- Medium
- Oil on canvas
- Size
- 6½ × 21½ in (16.5 × 54.9 cm)
- Museum
- The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, accession 1980.203.4. See the museum’s record
- Credit
- Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Walter Mendelsohn, 1980
Public domain image courtesy of The Metropolitan Museum of Art (Open Access, CC0).
Palette
- #735B25, 26 % of the picture, closest to Olive walls
- #443914, 26 % of the picture, closest to Chocolate walls
- #CAC4B0, 20 % of the picture, closest to Greige walls
- #BAB49D, 17 % of the picture, closest to Taupe walls
- #8C7A47, 11 % of the picture, closest to Olive walls
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Hang it
Pick the furniture and a print size to see it to scale on your wall.
- 18 × 60 in, the whole painting on 20 × 60 in paper
- Center
- 52¼ in (133 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.
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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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 5 × 7 in | trims 57.9 % | 2 × 7 in | 5 × 7 in ready-made | 9 × 11 in custom | 11 × 13 in custom | 544 dpi, crisp up close |
| 12 × 16 in | trims 59.9 % | 4¾ × 16 in | 12 × 16 in ready-made | 16 × 20 in ready-made | 18 × 22 in custom | 238 dpi, crisp from a step back |
| 12 × 36 in | trims 9.8 % | 10¾ × 36 in | 12 × 36 in custom | 16 × 40 in custom | 18 × 42 in custom | 105 dpi, soft up close |
| 20 × 30 in | trims 54.9 % | 9 × 30 in | 20 × 30 in ready-made | 24 × 34 in custom | 26 × 36 in custom | 127 dpi, soft up close |
| 24 × 36 in | trims 54.9 % | 10¾ × 36 in | 24 × 36 in ready-made | 28 × 40 in custom | 30 × 42 in custom | 105 dpi, soft up close |
| 20 × 60 in | trims 9.8 % | 18 × 60 in | 20 × 60 in custom | 24 × 64 in custom | 26 × 66 in custom | 63 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.
Download
Free for any use, including commercial: this image is public domain (CC0).
- Thumbnail (WebP) 560 × 172 px from Room Paintings
- Web image 598 × 184 px from The Met
- Print and original file 3,811 × 1,173 px from The Met
- The museum’s record of this painting The Met
Public domain image courtesy of The Metropolitan 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.
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Camille Corot Sibylle, ca. 1870
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Théodore Rousseau The Forest in Winter at Sunset, ca. 1846–67
Georges Seurat A Sunday on La Grande Jatte — 1884, 1884–86, border added 1888–89
Claude Monet Stacks of Wheat (End of Summer), 1890–91