A broken white and gray birch tree trunk has fallen across a rocky, shallow waterfall at the edge of a dense, deeply shadowed forest in this horizontal landscape painting.

Forest Scene

Jacob van Ruisdael (Dutch, 1628–1682)

Date: c. 1655
Medium: oil on canvas
Size: 41½ × 48½ in (105.5 × 123.4 cm)
Museum: National Gallery of Art, Washington, accession 1942.9.80. See the museum’s record
Credit: Widener Collection

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

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Where Print size

Print: 30 × 35 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 × 35 in landscape print (76 × 89 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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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 6.4 %	8 × 9½ in	8 × 10 in ready-made	12 × 14 in custom	14 × 16 in custom	4084 dpi, crisp up close
11 × 14 in	trims 8.1 %	11 × 13 in	11 × 14 in ready-made	15 × 18 in custom	17 × 20 in custom	2970 dpi, crisp up close
12 × 16 in	trims 12.3 %	12 × 14 in	12 × 16 in ready-made	16 × 20 in ready-made	18 × 22 in custom	2723 dpi, crisp up close
16 × 20 in	trims 6.4 %	16 × 18¾ in	16 × 20 in ready-made	20 × 24 in ready-made	22 × 26 in custom	2042 dpi, crisp up close
18 × 24 in	trims 12.3 %	18 × 21 in	18 × 24 in ready-made	22 × 28 in ready-made	24 × 30 in ready-made	1815 dpi, crisp up close
30 × 40 in	trims 12.3 %	30 × 35 in	30 × 40 in ready-made	34 × 44 in custom	36 × 46 in custom	1089 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 × 446 px from Room Paintings
Web image 843 × 672 px from National Gallery of Art
Print file 2,000 × 1,594 px from National Gallery of Art
Original file 40,998 × 32,676 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.