View in a Forest, outer right wing of a triptych

Gerard David (Netherlandish, 1455–1523)

Date: c. 1505 - c. 1515
Medium: oil on panel
Size: 34¾ × 11½ in (88.5 × 29.2 cm)
Museum: Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam, accession SK-A-3135. See the museum’s record
Credit: Purchased with the support of the Stichting tot Bevordering van de Belangen van het Rijksmuseum

Public domain image courtesy of the Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam (Public Domain Mark).

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Where Print size

Print: 20 × 60 in, filling the paper (trims 1 % of the picture)
Center: 58 in (147 cm) from the floor

20 × 60 in panoramic print (51 × 152 cm), centered 58 in from the floor. Drawn to scale on a 12 × 8 ft wall.

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Standard paper sizes that keep this painting’s proportions, the frames that fit them, and how sharp each one prints.

Paper	Filling the paper	Printed whole	Frame	Frame with a 2 in mat	Frame with a 3 in mat	Sharpness
12 × 36 in	trims 1 %	12 × 36 in	12 × 36 in custom	16 × 40 in custom	18 × 42 in custom	168 dpi, crisp from a step back
20 × 60 in	trims 1 %	19¾ × 60 in	20 × 60 in custom	24 × 64 in custom	26 × 66 in custom	101 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.

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

Thumbnail (WebP) 183 × 560 px from Room Paintings
Web image 276 × 843 px from Rijksmuseum
Print file 655 × 2,000 px from Rijksmuseum
Original file 2,027 × 6,187 px from Rijksmuseum
The museum’s record of this painting Rijksmuseum

Public domain image courtesy of the Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam (Public Domain Mark). 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.