This is a painting of a red horse standing on a patch of tan ground, tethered by a rope to a tall brown post. The horse's reddish-brown coat is rich and glossy, with white highlights. It faces the left, with its ears pricked up.

A Horse Hitched to a Post

Eugène Delacroix (French, 1798–1863)

Date: c. 1820
Medium: oil on canvas
Size: 7¾ × 8½ in (19.4 × 21.3 cm)
Museum: National Gallery of Art, Washington, accession 1994.59.17. 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).

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Where Print size

Print: 22 × 24 in, the whole painting on 24 × 24 in paper
Center: 50¼ in (128 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.

22 × 24 in landscape print (56 × 61 cm), centered 50¼ in from the floor, 8 in above the console table. 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 12.2 %	8 × 8¾ in	8 × 10 in ready-made	12 × 14 in custom	14 × 16 in custom	720 dpi, crisp up close
12 × 12 in	trims 8.9 %	11 × 12 in	12 × 12 in ready-made	16 × 16 in ready-made	18 × 18 in custom	529 dpi, crisp up close
16 × 16 in	trims 8.9 %	14½ × 16 in	16 × 16 in ready-made	20 × 20 in ready-made	22 × 22 in custom	395 dpi, crisp up close
16 × 20 in	trims 12.2 %	16 × 17½ in	16 × 20 in ready-made	20 × 24 in ready-made	22 × 26 in custom	360 dpi, crisp up close
20 × 20 in	trims 8.9 %	18¼ × 20 in	20 × 20 in ready-made	24 × 24 in ready-made	26 × 26 in custom	316 dpi, crisp up close
24 × 24 in	trims 8.9 %	22 × 24 in	24 × 24 in ready-made	28 × 28 in custom	30 × 30 in custom	263 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.

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

Thumbnail (WebP) 560 × 499 px from Room Paintings
Web image 843 × 751 px from National Gallery of Art
Print file 2,000 × 1,781 px from National Gallery of Art
Original file 6,477 × 5,767 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.