Three people gather around the doorway of a small cottage set in a sun-warmed yard in this almost square painting.

Cottage Scenery

George Caleb Bingham (American, 1811–1879)

Date: 1845
Medium: oil on canvas
Size: 25½ × 30 in (64.8 × 76.2 cm)
Museum: National Gallery of Art, Washington, accession 2014.79.6. See the museum’s record
Credit: Corcoran Collection (Museum Purchase, Gallery Fund and Gifts of Charles C. Glover, Jr., Orme Wilson, and Mr. and Mrs. Lansdell K. Christie, 1961)

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

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Where Print size

Print: 30 × 35¼ in, the whole painting on 30 × 40 in paper
Center: 72¼ in (184 cm) from the floor
Above the headboard: 8 in (20 cm) from the headboard to the frame
Ideal width: 40 to 45 in over a 60 in headboard
Why this height: Centered at eye level, this frame would not sit 6 to 10 in above the headboard, so the 8 in gap sets the height.

30 × 35¼ in landscape print (76 × 90 cm), centered 72¼ in from the floor, 8 in above the headboard. 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 5.9 %	8 × 9½ in	8 × 10 in ready-made	12 × 14 in custom	14 × 16 in custom	1984 dpi, crisp up close
11 × 14 in	trims 7.6 %	11 × 13 in	11 × 14 in ready-made	15 × 18 in custom	17 × 20 in custom	1443 dpi, crisp up close
12 × 16 in	trims 11.8 %	12 × 14 in	12 × 16 in ready-made	16 × 20 in ready-made	18 × 22 in custom	1323 dpi, crisp up close
16 × 20 in	trims 5.9 %	16 × 18¾ in	16 × 20 in ready-made	20 × 24 in ready-made	22 × 26 in custom	992 dpi, crisp up close
18 × 24 in	trims 11.8 %	18 × 21¼ in	18 × 24 in ready-made	22 × 28 in ready-made	24 × 30 in ready-made	882 dpi, crisp up close
30 × 40 in	trims 11.8 %	30 × 35¼ in	30 × 40 in ready-made	34 × 44 in custom	36 × 46 in custom	529 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) 560 × 475 px from Room Paintings
Web image 843 × 715 px from National Gallery of Art
Print file 2,000 × 1,695 px from National Gallery of Art
Original file 18,732 × 15,877 px from National Gallery of Art
The museum’s record of this painting National Gallery of Art

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.