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A pair of arched cave openings yawn in a steep, rocky cliff face that fills this horizontal painting.

La Grotte de la Loue

Gustave Courbet (French, 1819–1877)

Date
1864
Medium
oil on canvas
Size
38¾ × 51¼ in (98.4 × 130.4 cm)
Museum
National Gallery of Art, Washington, accession 1957.6.1. See the museum’s record
Credit
Gift of Charles L. Lindemann

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

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Print
36 × 48 in, filling the paper (trims 0.6 % of the picture)
Center
61¼ in (156 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.
La Grotte de la Loue: a 36 × 48 in print hung above a sofa, drawn to scale on a 12 × 8 ft wall
36 × 48 in landscape print (91 × 122 cm), centered 61¼ in from the floor, 8 in above the sofa. Drawn to scale on a 12 × 8 ft wall.

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Print it

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
5 × 7 in trims 5.4 % 5 × 6½ in 5 × 7 in ready-made 9 × 11 in custom 11 × 13 in custom 7210 dpi, crisp up close
8 × 10 in trims 5.7 % 7½ × 10 in 8 × 10 in ready-made 12 × 14 in custom 14 × 16 in custom 4771 dpi, crisp up close
11 × 14 in trims 3.9 % 10½ × 14 in 11 × 14 in ready-made 15 × 18 in custom 17 × 20 in custom 3469 dpi, crisp up close
12 × 16 in trims 0.6 % 12 × 16 in 12 × 16 in ready-made 16 × 20 in ready-made 18 × 22 in custom 3154 dpi, crisp up close
16 × 20 in trims 5.7 % 15 × 20 in 16 × 20 in ready-made 20 × 24 in ready-made 22 × 26 in custom 2385 dpi, crisp up close
18 × 24 in trims 0.6 % 18 × 23¾ in 18 × 24 in ready-made 22 × 28 in ready-made 24 × 30 in ready-made 2103 dpi, crisp up close
30 × 40 in trims 0.6 % 30 × 39¾ in 30 × 40 in ready-made 34 × 44 in custom 36 × 46 in custom 1261 dpi, crisp up close
36 × 48 in trims 0.6 % 36 × 47¾ in 36 × 48 in ready-made 40 × 52 in custom 42 × 54 in custom 1051 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).

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.

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