The Dream of the Shepherd (Der Traum des Hirten)

Ferdinand Hodler (Swiss, 1853–1918)

Date: 1896
Medium: Oil on canvas
Size: 98½ × 51½ in (250.2 × 130.5 cm)
Museum: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, accession 2013.1134. See the museum’s record
Credit: Purchase, European Paintings Funds, Lila Acheson Wallace Gift, Catharine Lorillard Wolfe Collection, Wolfe Fund, Charles and Jessie Price Gift, funds from various donors, and Bequests of Collis P. Huntington and Isaac D. Fletcher, by exchange, 2013

Public domain image courtesy of The Metropolitan Museum of Art (Open Access, CC0).

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Pick the furniture and a print size to see it to scale on your wall.

Where Print size

Print: 20 × 38¼ in, the whole painting on 20 × 60 in paper
Center: 58 in (147 cm) from the floor

20 × 38¼ in portrait print (51 × 97 cm), centered 58 in from the floor. 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 26.9 %	3¾ × 7 in	5 × 7 in ready-made	9 × 11 in custom	11 × 13 in custom	550 dpi, crisp up close
12 × 16 in	trims 30.4 %	8½ × 16 in	12 × 16 in ready-made	16 × 20 in ready-made	18 × 22 in custom	242 dpi, crisp from a step back
12 × 36 in	trims 36.1 %	12 × 23 in	12 × 36 in custom	16 × 40 in custom	18 × 42 in custom	168 dpi, crisp from a step back
20 × 30 in	trims 21.7 %	15¾ × 30 in	20 × 30 in ready-made	24 × 34 in custom	26 × 36 in custom	129 dpi, soft up close
24 × 36 in	trims 21.7 %	18¾ × 36 in	24 × 36 in ready-made	28 × 40 in custom	30 × 42 in custom	107 dpi, soft up close
20 × 60 in	trims 36.1 %	20 × 38¼ in	20 × 60 in custom	24 × 64 in custom	26 × 66 in custom	101 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).

Thumbnail (WebP) 294 × 560 px from Room Paintings
Web image 327 × 623 px from The Met
Print and original file 2,035 × 3,880 px from The Met
The museum’s record of this painting The Met

Public domain image courtesy of The Metropolitan Museum 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.