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The Death of Socrates, Jacques-Louis David, 1787, oil on canvas

The Death of Socrates

Jacques-Louis David (French, 1748–1825)

Date
1787
Medium
Oil on canvas
Size
51 × 77¼ in (129.5 × 196.2 cm)
Museum
The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, accession 31.45. See the museum’s record
Credit
Catharine Lorillard Wolfe Collection, Wolfe Fund, 1931

Public domain image courtesy of The Metropolitan Museum of Art (Open Access, CC0).

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Hang it

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

Print
24 × 36 in, filling the paper (trims 1 % of the picture)
Center
55¼ in (140 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.
The Death of Socrates: a 24 × 36 in print hung above a sofa, drawn to scale on a 12 × 8 ft wall
24 × 36 in landscape print (61 × 91 cm), centered 55¼ 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
20 × 30 in trims 1 % 19¾ × 30 in 20 × 30 in ready-made 24 × 34 in custom 26 × 36 in custom 133 dpi, soft up close
24 × 36 in trims 1 % 23¾ × 36 in 24 × 36 in ready-made 28 × 40 in custom 30 × 42 in custom 110 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.

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Free for any use, including commercial: this image is public domain (CC0).

Public domain image courtesy of The Metropolitan Museum 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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