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Two ships and two sailboats, all with full sails, float on a gently rippling body of water in front of a pale pastel-shaded sky in this horizontal painting.

Becalmed off Halfway Rock

Fitz Henry Lane (American, 1804–1865)

Date
1860
Medium
oil on canvas
Size
27¾ × 47½ in (70.4 × 120.5 cm)
Museum
National Gallery of Art, Washington, accession 1992.51.8. See the museum’s record
Credit
Collection of Mr. and Mrs. Paul Mellon, in Honor of the 50th Anniversary of the National Gallery of Art

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

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Print
23½ × 40 in, the whole painting on 30 × 40 in paper
Center
55 in (140 cm) from the floor
Above the sofa
8 in (20 cm) from the sofa to the frame
Ideal width
56 to 63 in over an 84 in sofa
Why this height
Centered at eye level, this frame would not sit 6 to 10 in above the sofa, so the 8 in gap sets the height.
Becalmed off Halfway Rock: a 23½ × 40 in print hung above a sofa, drawn to scale on a 12 × 8 ft wall
23½ × 40 in landscape print (59 × 102 cm), centered 55 in from the floor, 8 in above the sofa. 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
5 × 7 in trims 18.2 % 4 × 7 in 5 × 7 in ready-made 9 × 11 in custom 11 × 13 in custom 930 dpi, crisp up close
12 × 16 in trims 22.1 % 9¼ × 16 in 12 × 16 in ready-made 16 × 20 in ready-made 18 × 22 in custom 409 dpi, crisp up close
18 × 24 in trims 22.1 % 14 × 24 in 18 × 24 in ready-made 22 × 28 in ready-made 24 × 30 in ready-made 272 dpi, crisp from a step back
20 × 30 in trims 12.4 % 17½ × 30 in 20 × 30 in ready-made 24 × 34 in custom 26 × 36 in custom 217 dpi, crisp from a step back
24 × 36 in trims 12.4 % 21 × 36 in 24 × 36 in ready-made 28 × 40 in custom 30 × 42 in custom 181 dpi, crisp from a step back
30 × 40 in trims 22.1 % 23½ × 40 in 30 × 40 in ready-made 34 × 44 in custom 36 × 46 in custom 162 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).

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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