Bo Peep (The Peep)

Eastman Johnson (American, 1824–1906)

Date: 1872
Medium: oil on board
Size: 32 × 36½ in (81.3 × 92.7 cm)
Museum: Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington, accession 2023.58. See the museum’s record
Credit: Smithsonian American Art Museum, Gift of Walter and Lucille Rubin

Public domain image courtesy of the Smithsonian American Art Museum (Smithsonian Open Access, CC0).

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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: 17½ × 20 in, the whole painting on 20 × 20 in paper
Center: 66 in (168 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.

17½ × 20 in landscape print (44 × 51 cm), centered 66 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 8.8 %	8 × 9 in	8 × 10 in ready-made	12 × 14 in custom	14 × 16 in custom	92 dpi, soft up close
12 × 12 in	trims 12.3 %	10½ × 12 in	12 × 12 in ready-made	16 × 16 in ready-made	18 × 18 in custom	70 dpi, soft up close
11 × 14 in	trims 10.4 %	11 × 12½ in	11 × 14 in ready-made	15 × 18 in custom	17 × 20 in custom	67 dpi, soft up close
16 × 16 in	trims 12.3 %	14 × 16 in	16 × 16 in ready-made	20 × 20 in ready-made	22 × 22 in custom	52 dpi, soft up close
16 × 20 in	trims 8.8 %	16 × 18¼ in	16 × 20 in ready-made	20 × 24 in ready-made	22 × 26 in custom	46 dpi, soft up close
20 × 20 in	trims 12.3 %	17½ × 20 in	20 × 20 in ready-made	24 × 24 in ready-made	26 × 26 in custom	42 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 × 493 px from Room Paintings
Web image 843 × 742 px from Smithsonian American Art Museum
Original file largest file from Smithsonian American Art Museum
The museum’s record of this painting Smithsonian American Art Museum

Public domain image courtesy of the Smithsonian American Art Museum (Smithsonian 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.