A wide creek winds between a tree-lined bank to our left and hazy mountains to our right in this horizontal landscape painting. The riverbank curves deeply like a backward capital letter B.

A Creek in St. Thomas (Virgin Islands)

Camille Pissarro (French, 1830–1903)

Date: 1856
Medium: oil on academy board
Size: 9¾ × 12¾ in (24.5 × 32.2 cm)
Museum: National Gallery of Art, Washington, accession 1985.64.29. See the museum’s record
Credit: Collection of Mr. and Mrs. Paul Mellon

Public domain image courtesy of the National Gallery of Art (Open Access, CC0).

Palette

Closest wall colors:

Fits these rooms

Hang it

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

Where Print size

Print: 30 × 40 in, filling the paper (trims 1.4 % of the picture)
Center: 54¼ in (138 cm) from the floor
Above the console table: 8 in (20 cm) from the console table to the frame
Ideal width: 36 to 41 in over a 54 in console table
Why this height: Centered at eye level, this frame would not sit 6 to 10 in above the console table, so the 8 in gap sets the height.

30 × 40 in landscape print (76 × 102 cm), centered 54¼ in from the floor, 8 in above the console table. Drawn to scale on a 12 × 8 ft wall.

Try it on your wall color

Default greige

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
8 × 10 in	trims 4.9 %	7½ × 10 in	8 × 10 in ready-made	12 × 14 in custom	14 × 16 in custom	782 dpi, crisp up close
11 × 14 in	trims 3.1 %	10¾ × 14 in	11 × 14 in ready-made	15 × 18 in custom	17 × 20 in custom	569 dpi, crisp up close
12 × 16 in	trims 1.4 %	12 × 15¾ in	12 × 16 in ready-made	16 × 20 in ready-made	18 × 22 in custom	521 dpi, crisp up close
16 × 20 in	trims 4.9 %	15¼ × 20 in	16 × 20 in ready-made	20 × 24 in ready-made	22 × 26 in custom	391 dpi, crisp up close
18 × 24 in	trims 1.4 %	18 × 23¾ in	18 × 24 in ready-made	22 × 28 in ready-made	24 × 30 in ready-made	347 dpi, crisp up close
30 × 40 in	trims 1.4 %	30 × 39½ in	30 × 40 in ready-made	34 × 44 in custom	36 × 46 in custom	208 dpi, crisp from a step back
36 × 48 in	trims 1.4 %	36 × 47¼ in	36 × 48 in ready-made	40 × 52 in custom	42 × 54 in custom	173 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.

Download

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

Thumbnail (WebP) 560 × 419 px from Room Paintings
Web image 843 × 631 px from National Gallery of Art
Print file 2,000 × 1,497 px from National Gallery of Art
Original file 8,363 × 6,261 px from National Gallery of Art
The museum’s record of this painting National Gallery of Art

Public domain image courtesy of the National Gallery 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.