Fountain of Venus

François Boucher (French, 1703–1770)

Date: 1756
Medium: oil on canvas
Size: 91¾ × 84¾ in (233 × 215 cm)
Museum: Cleveland Museum of Art, accession 1979.55. See the museum’s record
Credit: The Thomas L. Fawick Memorial Collection

Public domain image courtesy of the Cleveland Museum of Art (Open Access, CC0).

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Hang it

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

Where Print size

Print: 22¼ × 24 in, the whole painting on 24 × 24 in paper
Center: 58 in (147 cm) from the floor

22¼ × 24 in portrait print (56 × 61 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
8 × 10 in	trims 13.3 %	8 × 8¾ in	8 × 10 in ready-made	12 × 14 in custom	14 × 16 in custom	1309 dpi, crisp up close
12 × 12 in	trims 7.7 %	11 × 12 in	12 × 12 in ready-made	16 × 16 in ready-made	18 × 18 in custom	949 dpi, crisp up close
16 × 16 in	trims 7.7 %	14¾ × 16 in	16 × 16 in ready-made	20 × 20 in ready-made	22 × 22 in custom	712 dpi, crisp up close
16 × 20 in	trims 13.3 %	16 × 17¼ in	16 × 20 in ready-made	20 × 24 in ready-made	22 × 26 in custom	658 dpi, crisp up close
20 × 20 in	trims 7.7 %	18½ × 20 in	20 × 20 in ready-made	24 × 24 in ready-made	26 × 26 in custom	569 dpi, crisp up close
24 × 24 in	trims 7.7 %	22¼ × 24 in	24 × 24 in ready-made	28 × 28 in custom	30 × 30 in custom	474 dpi, crisp 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) 519 × 560 px from Room Paintings
Web image 827 × 893 px from Cleveland Museum of Art
Print file 3,150 × 3,400 px from Cleveland Museum of Art
Original file 10,557 × 11,394 px from Cleveland Museum of Art
The museum’s record of this painting Cleveland Museum of Art

Public domain image courtesy of the Cleveland 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.