This painting shows a scene with several people spaced out across a grassy expanse. The horizon is high in the painting, lined with white structures with red roofs and green trees.

Figures in a Landscape

Georges Seurat (French, 1859–1891)

Date: c. 1883
Medium: oil on wood
Size: 6 × 9¾ in (15.2 × 24.8 cm)
Museum: National Gallery of Art, Washington, accession 2014.18.53. See the museum’s record
Credit: Collection of Mr. and Mrs. Paul Mellon

Public domain image courtesy of the National Gallery 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: 22 × 36 in, the whole painting on 24 × 36 in paper
Center: 50¼ in (128 cm) from the floor
Above the console table: 8 in (20 cm) from the console table to the frame
Ideal width: 36 to 41 in over a 54 in console table
Why this height: Centered at eye level, this frame would not sit 6 to 10 in above the console table, so the 8 in gap sets the height.

22 × 36 in landscape print (56 × 91 cm), centered 50¼ in from the floor, 8 in above the console table. 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 14.2 %	4¼ × 7 in	5 × 7 in ready-made	9 × 11 in custom	11 × 13 in custom	918 dpi, crisp up close
12 × 16 in	trims 18.3 %	9¾ × 16 in	12 × 16 in ready-made	16 × 20 in ready-made	18 × 22 in custom	402 dpi, crisp up close
18 × 24 in	trims 18.3 %	14¾ × 24 in	18 × 24 in ready-made	22 × 28 in ready-made	24 × 30 in ready-made	268 dpi, crisp from a step back
20 × 30 in	trims 8.1 %	18½ × 30 in	20 × 30 in ready-made	24 × 34 in custom	26 × 36 in custom	214 dpi, crisp from a step back
24 × 36 in	trims 8.1 %	22 × 36 in	24 × 36 in ready-made	28 × 40 in custom	30 × 42 in custom	178 dpi, crisp from a step back
30 × 40 in	trims 18.3 %	24½ × 40 in	30 × 40 in ready-made	34 × 44 in custom	36 × 46 in custom	160 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 × 344 px from Room Paintings
Web image 843 × 518 px from National Gallery of Art
Print file 2,000 × 1,228 px from National Gallery of Art
Original file 6,436 × 3,951 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.