Painting of several light-skinned people gathered around a table in front of a gilded mirror, playing instruments. At left, seated next to a woman in an off-the-shoulder gown, a man in a plumed hat plays a lute.

The Family Concert

Jan Steen (Dutch, 1626–1679)

Date: 1666
Medium: Oil on canvas
Size: 34 × 39¾ in (86.6 × 101 cm)
Museum: Art Institute of Chicago, accession 1891.65. See the museum’s record
Credit: Gift of Timothy B. Blackstone

Public domain image courtesy of the Art Institute of Chicago (CC0).

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Where Print size

Print: 17¼ × 20 in, the whole painting on 20 × 20 in paper
Center: 65¾ in (167 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.

17¼ × 20 in landscape print (44 × 51 cm), centered 65¾ 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 6.7 %	8 × 9¼ in	8 × 10 in ready-made	12 × 14 in custom	14 × 16 in custom	215 dpi, crisp from a step back
12 × 12 in	trims 14.2 %	10¼ × 12 in	12 × 12 in ready-made	16 × 16 in ready-made	18 × 18 in custom	166 dpi, crisp from a step back
11 × 14 in	trims 8.4 %	11 × 12¾ in	11 × 14 in ready-made	15 × 18 in custom	17 × 20 in custom	156 dpi, crisp from a step back
16 × 16 in	trims 14.2 %	13¾ × 16 in	16 × 16 in ready-made	20 × 20 in ready-made	22 × 22 in custom	125 dpi, soft up close
16 × 20 in	trims 6.7 %	16 × 18¾ in	16 × 20 in ready-made	20 × 24 in ready-made	22 × 26 in custom	106 dpi, soft up close
20 × 20 in	trims 14.2 %	17¼ × 20 in	20 × 20 in ready-made	24 × 24 in ready-made	26 × 26 in custom	100 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).

Thumbnail (WebP) 560 × 482 px from Room Paintings
Web image 843 × 725 px from Art Institute of Chicago
Print file 2,000 × 1,720 px from Art Institute of Chicago
The museum’s record of this painting Art Institute of Chicago

Public domain image courtesy of the Art Institute of Chicago (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.