The Grand Canal above the Rialto

Francesco Guardi (Italian, 1712–1793)

Date: late 1760s
Medium: Oil on canvas
Size: 21 × 33¾ in (53.3 × 85.7 cm)
Museum: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, accession 71.119. See the museum’s record
Credit: Purchase, 1871

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

Palette

Closest wall colors:

Fits these rooms

Hang it

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

Where Print size

Print: 25 × 40 in, the whole painting on 30 × 40 in paper
Center: 55¾ in (141 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.

25 × 40 in landscape print (63 × 102 cm), centered 55¾ in from the floor, 8 in above the sofa. Drawn to scale on a 12 × 8 ft wall.

Try it on your wall color

Default greige

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 12.9 %	4½ × 7 in	5 × 7 in ready-made	9 × 11 in custom	11 × 13 in custom	551 dpi, crisp up close
12 × 16 in	trims 17.1 %	10 × 16 in	12 × 16 in ready-made	16 × 20 in ready-made	18 × 22 in custom	241 dpi, crisp from a step back
18 × 24 in	trims 17.1 %	15 × 24 in	18 × 24 in ready-made	22 × 28 in ready-made	24 × 30 in ready-made	160 dpi, crisp from a step back
20 × 30 in	trims 6.7 %	18¾ × 30 in	20 × 30 in ready-made	24 × 34 in custom	26 × 36 in custom	128 dpi, soft up close
24 × 36 in	trims 6.7 %	22½ × 36 in	24 × 36 in ready-made	28 × 40 in custom	30 × 42 in custom	107 dpi, soft up close
30 × 40 in	trims 17.1 %	25 × 40 in	30 × 40 in ready-made	34 × 44 in custom	36 × 46 in custom	96 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.

Download

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

Thumbnail (WebP) 560 × 354 px from Room Paintings
Web image 599 × 379 px from The Met
Print and original file 3,863 × 2,444 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.