We look across a river and slightly up at a pair of tall, leafy trees framed by steely-gray clouds against a a vivid blue sky in this nearly square landscape painting.

Landscape

Jacob van Ruisdael (Dutch, 1628–1682)

Date: c. 1670
Medium: oil on canvas
Size: 21 × 23½ in (53.2 × 60 cm)
Museum: National Gallery of Art, Washington, accession 1961.9.85. See the museum’s record
Credit: Samuel H. Kress Collection

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

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

Where Print size

Print: 21¼ × 24 in, the whole painting on 24 × 24 in paper
Center: 68 in (172 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.

21¼ × 24 in landscape print (54 × 61 cm), centered 68 in from the floor, 8 in above the headboard. 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 9.8 %	8 × 9 in	8 × 10 in ready-made	12 × 14 in custom	14 × 16 in custom	464 dpi, crisp up close
12 × 12 in	trims 11.3 %	10½ × 12 in	12 × 12 in ready-made	16 × 16 in ready-made	18 × 18 in custom	348 dpi, crisp up close
16 × 16 in	trims 11.3 %	14¼ × 16 in	16 × 16 in ready-made	20 × 20 in ready-made	22 × 22 in custom	261 dpi, crisp from a step back
16 × 20 in	trims 9.8 %	16 × 18 in	16 × 20 in ready-made	20 × 24 in ready-made	22 × 26 in custom	232 dpi, crisp from a step back
20 × 20 in	trims 11.3 %	17¾ × 20 in	20 × 20 in ready-made	24 × 24 in ready-made	26 × 26 in custom	208 dpi, crisp from a step back
24 × 24 in	trims 11.3 %	21¼ × 24 in	24 × 24 in ready-made	28 × 28 in custom	30 × 30 in custom	174 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 (CC0).

Thumbnail (WebP) 560 × 498 px from Room Paintings
Web image 843 × 749 px from National Gallery of Art
Print file 2,000 × 1,778 px from National Gallery of Art
Original file 4,178 × 3,714 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.