Forest Scene

Jacob van Ruisdael (Dutch, 1628–1682)

Date: 1653
Medium: oil on panel
Size: 16½ × 19¼ in (42 × 49 cm)
Museum: Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam, accession SK-A-350. See the museum’s record
Credit: Dupper Wzn. Bequest, Dordrecht

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

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Pick the furniture and a print size to see it to scale on your wall.

Where Print size

Print: 30 × 35 in, the whole painting on 30 × 40 in paper
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 × 35 in landscape print (76 × 89 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

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 6.6 %	8 × 9¼ in	8 × 10 in ready-made	12 × 14 in custom	14 × 16 in custom	721 dpi, crisp up close
11 × 14 in	trims 8.3 %	11 × 12¾ in	11 × 14 in ready-made	15 × 18 in custom	17 × 20 in custom	524 dpi, crisp up close
12 × 16 in	trims 12.5 %	12 × 14 in	12 × 16 in ready-made	16 × 20 in ready-made	18 × 22 in custom	479 dpi, crisp up close
16 × 20 in	trims 6.6 %	16 × 18¾ in	16 × 20 in ready-made	20 × 24 in ready-made	22 × 26 in custom	358 dpi, crisp up close
18 × 24 in	trims 12.5 %	18 × 21 in	18 × 24 in ready-made	22 × 28 in ready-made	24 × 30 in ready-made	319 dpi, crisp up close
30 × 40 in	trims 12.5 %	30 × 35 in	30 × 40 in ready-made	34 × 44 in custom	36 × 46 in custom	191 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 (Public Domain Mark).

Thumbnail (WebP) 560 × 482 px from Room Paintings
Web image 843 × 726 px from Rijksmuseum
Print file 2,000 × 1,722 px from Rijksmuseum
Original file 6,708 × 5,776 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.