Eight men, women, and children stand or sit in straight-backed, wooden chairs gathered along a sandy beach near low, gently breaking waves with sailboats floating in the ocean beyond in this horizontal landscape painting.

Beach at Trouville

Eugène Boudin (French, 1824–1898)

Date: 1864/1865
Medium: oil on wood
Size: 10¾ × 19¼ in (27 × 49.1 cm)
Museum: National Gallery of Art, Washington, accession 1970.17.12. 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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Hang it

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Where Print size

Print: 19¾ × 36 in, the whole painting on 24 × 36 in paper
Center: 49¼ in (125 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.

19¾ × 36 in landscape print (50 × 91 cm), centered 49¼ in from the floor, 8 in above the console table. 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
5 × 7 in	trims 23 %	3¾ × 7 in	5 × 7 in ready-made	9 × 11 in custom	11 × 13 in custom	2092 dpi, crisp up close
12 × 16 in	trims 26.7 %	8¾ × 16 in	12 × 16 in ready-made	16 × 20 in ready-made	18 × 22 in custom	903 dpi, crisp up close
18 × 24 in	trims 26.7 %	13¼ × 24 in	18 × 24 in ready-made	22 × 28 in ready-made	24 × 30 in ready-made	602 dpi, crisp up close
20 × 30 in	trims 17.5 %	16½ × 30 in	20 × 30 in ready-made	24 × 34 in custom	26 × 36 in custom	481 dpi, crisp up close
24 × 36 in	trims 17.5 %	19¾ × 36 in	24 × 36 in ready-made	28 × 40 in custom	30 × 42 in custom	401 dpi, crisp up close
30 × 40 in	trims 26.7 %	22 × 40 in	30 × 40 in ready-made	34 × 44 in custom	36 × 46 in custom	361 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) 560 × 301 px from Room Paintings
Web image 843 × 453 px from National Gallery of Art
Print file 2,000 × 1,074 px from National Gallery of Art
Original file 14,805 × 7,951 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.