Music and Dance

François Boucher (French, 1703–1770)

Date: 1740s
Medium: oil on canvas
Size: 27¼ × 48½ in (69 × 123 cm)
Museum: Cleveland Museum of Art, accession 1948.181.1. See the museum’s record
Credit: Gift of the Louis Dudley Beaumont Foundation

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: 22½ × 40 in, the whole painting on 30 × 40 in paper
Center: 54½ in (138 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.

22½ × 40 in landscape print (57 × 102 cm), centered 54½ in from the floor, 8 in above the sofa. 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 21.5 %	4 × 7 in	5 × 7 in ready-made	9 × 11 in custom	11 × 13 in custom	942 dpi, crisp up close
12 × 16 in	trims 25.2 %	9 × 16 in	12 × 16 in ready-made	16 × 20 in ready-made	18 × 22 in custom	408 dpi, crisp up close
18 × 24 in	trims 25.2 %	13½ × 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 15.9 %	16¾ × 30 in	20 × 30 in ready-made	24 × 34 in custom	26 × 36 in custom	219 dpi, crisp from a step back
24 × 36 in	trims 15.9 %	20¼ × 36 in	24 × 36 in ready-made	28 × 40 in custom	30 × 42 in custom	182 dpi, crisp from a step back
30 × 40 in	trims 25.2 %	22½ × 40 in	30 × 40 in ready-made	34 × 44 in custom	36 × 46 in custom	164 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 × 312 px from Room Paintings
Web image 1,263 × 704 px from Cleveland Museum of Art
Print file 3,400 × 1,896 px from Cleveland Museum of Art
Original file 6,600 × 3,680 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.