This painting shows a man in a yellow jacket standing on a small brown rowboat on a wide, pale green river. Behind him is a large mint-green sailboat, its tall mast bare, the sails folded on the deck.

Oyster Sloop, Cos Cob

Childe Hassam (American, 1859–1935)

Date: 1902
Medium: oil on canvas
Size: 24¼ × 22¼ in (61.9 × 56.8 cm)
Museum: National Gallery of Art, Washington, accession 1970.17.100. See the museum’s record
Credit: Ailsa Mellon Bruce Collection

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

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Where Print size

Print: 22 × 24 in, the whole painting on 24 × 24 in paper
Center: 58 in (147 cm) above the stair line

22 × 24 in portrait print (56 × 61 cm), centered 58 in above the stair line. Drawn to scale on a 12 × 8 ft wall.

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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 12.9 %	8 × 8¾ in	8 × 10 in ready-made	12 × 14 in custom	14 × 16 in custom	1439 dpi, crisp up close
12 × 12 in	trims 8.2 %	11 × 12 in	12 × 12 in ready-made	16 × 16 in ready-made	18 × 18 in custom	1043 dpi, crisp up close
16 × 16 in	trims 8.2 %	14¾ × 16 in	16 × 16 in ready-made	20 × 20 in ready-made	22 × 22 in custom	782 dpi, crisp up close
16 × 20 in	trims 12.9 %	16 × 17½ in	16 × 20 in ready-made	20 × 24 in ready-made	22 × 26 in custom	719 dpi, crisp up close
20 × 20 in	trims 8.2 %	18½ × 20 in	20 × 20 in ready-made	24 × 24 in ready-made	26 × 26 in custom	625 dpi, crisp up close
24 × 24 in	trims 8.2 %	22 × 24 in	24 × 24 in ready-made	28 × 28 in custom	30 × 30 in custom	521 dpi, crisp 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) 515 × 560 px from Room Paintings
Web image 775 × 843 px from National Gallery of Art
Print file 1,838 × 2,000 px from National Gallery of Art
Original file 11,515 × 12,527 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.