The Merry Family

Jan Steen (Dutch, 1625–1679)

Date: 1668
Medium: oil on canvas
Size: 43½ × 55½ in (110.5 × 141 cm)
Museum: Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam, accession SK-C-229. See the museum’s record
Credit: On loan from the City of Amsterdam (A. van der Hoop Bequest)

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

Palette

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Hang it

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

Where Print size

Print: 36 × 48 in, filling the paper (trims 4.3 % of the picture)
Center: 61¼ in (156 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.

36 × 48 in landscape print (91 × 122 cm), centered 61¼ 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
8 × 10 in	trims 2 %	7¾ × 10 in	8 × 10 in ready-made	12 × 14 in custom	14 × 16 in custom	577 dpi, crisp up close
11 × 14 in	trims 0.3 %	11 × 14 in	11 × 14 in ready-made	15 × 18 in custom	17 × 20 in custom	419 dpi, crisp up close
12 × 16 in	trims 4.3 %	12 × 15¼ in	12 × 16 in ready-made	16 × 20 in ready-made	18 × 22 in custom	367 dpi, crisp up close
16 × 20 in	trims 2 %	15¾ × 20 in	16 × 20 in ready-made	20 × 24 in ready-made	22 × 26 in custom	288 dpi, crisp from a step back
18 × 24 in	trims 4.3 %	18 × 23 in	18 × 24 in ready-made	22 × 28 in ready-made	24 × 30 in ready-made	244 dpi, crisp from a step back
30 × 40 in	trims 4.3 %	30 × 38¼ in	30 × 40 in ready-made	34 × 44 in custom	36 × 46 in custom	146 dpi, soft up close
36 × 48 in	trims 4.3 %	36 × 46 in	36 × 48 in ready-made	40 × 52 in custom	42 × 54 in custom	122 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 (Public Domain Mark).

Thumbnail (WebP) 560 × 440 px from Room Paintings
Web image 843 × 663 px from Rijksmuseum
Print file 2,000 × 1,572 px from Rijksmuseum
Original file 5,876 × 4,619 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.