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This painting depicts a scene overlooking a calm body of water. A large sailing ship with two tall masts and a dark hull is anchored on the water, its sails tied up. On the left, there are two people in a small, dark rowboat.

Ship on the Touques

Eugène Boudin (French, 1824–1898)

Date
c. 1888/1895
Medium
oil on wood
Size
12¾ × 9¼ in (32.5 × 23.8 cm)
Museum
National Gallery of Art, Washington, accession 1986.36.1. See the museum’s record
Credit
Gift of the Department of Justice

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

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Print
18 × 24 in, filling the paper (trims 2.4 % of the picture)
Center
58 in (147 cm) above the stair line
Ship on the Touques: an 18 × 24 in print hung beside a staircase, drawn to scale on a 12 × 8 ft wall
18 × 24 in portrait print (46 × 61 cm), centered 58 in above the stair line. Drawn to scale on a 12 × 8 ft wall.

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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
5 × 7 in trims 2.4 % 5 × 6¾ in 5 × 7 in ready-made 9 × 11 in custom 11 × 13 in custom 700 dpi, crisp up close
12 × 16 in trims 2.4 % 11¾ × 16 in 12 × 16 in ready-made 16 × 20 in ready-made 18 × 22 in custom 297 dpi, crisp from a step back
18 × 24 in trims 2.4 % 17½ × 24 in 18 × 24 in ready-made 22 × 28 in ready-made 24 × 30 in ready-made 198 dpi, crisp from a step back
30 × 40 in trims 2.4 % 29¼ × 40 in 30 × 40 in ready-made 34 × 44 in custom 36 × 46 in custom 118 dpi, soft up close
36 × 48 in trims 2.4 % 35 × 48 in 36 × 48 in ready-made 40 × 52 in custom 42 × 54 in custom 99 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.

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

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.

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