The Reading

Honoré Daumier (French, 1808–1879)

Date: c. 1857
Medium: oil on panel
Size: 10¾ × 13¾ in (27 × 35 cm)
Museum: Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam, accession SK-A-2980. See the museum’s record
Credit: C.D. Reich Bequest

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

Palette

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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: 30 × 40 in, filling the paper (trims 2.8 % of the picture)
Center: 54¼ in (138 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.

30 × 40 in landscape print (76 × 102 cm), centered 54¼ 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

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
8 × 10 in	trims 3.5 %	7¾ × 10 in	8 × 10 in ready-made	12 × 14 in custom	14 × 16 in custom	370 dpi, crisp up close
11 × 14 in	trims 1.8 %	10¾ × 14 in	11 × 14 in ready-made	15 × 18 in custom	17 × 20 in custom	269 dpi, crisp from a step back
12 × 16 in	trims 2.8 %	12 × 15½ in	12 × 16 in ready-made	16 × 20 in ready-made	18 × 22 in custom	243 dpi, crisp from a step back
16 × 20 in	trims 3.5 %	15½ × 20 in	16 × 20 in ready-made	20 × 24 in ready-made	22 × 26 in custom	185 dpi, crisp from a step back
18 × 24 in	trims 2.8 %	18 × 23¼ in	18 × 24 in ready-made	22 × 28 in ready-made	24 × 30 in ready-made	162 dpi, crisp from a step back
30 × 40 in	trims 2.8 %	30 × 39 in	30 × 40 in ready-made	34 × 44 in custom	36 × 46 in custom	97 dpi, soft up close
36 × 48 in	trims 2.8 %	36 × 46¾ in	36 × 48 in ready-made	40 × 52 in custom	42 × 54 in custom	81 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.

Download

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

Thumbnail (WebP) 560 × 426 px from Room Paintings
Web image 843 × 642 px from Rijksmuseum
Print file 2,000 × 1,524 px from Rijksmuseum
Original file 3,892 × 2,966 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.