Houses on a Waterway near Crooswijk

Johan Barthold Jongkind (Dutch, 1819–1891)

Date: 1874
Medium: oil on canvas
Size: 10 × 13 in (25.1 × 33.3 cm)
Museum: Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam, accession SK-A-3317. See the museum’s record
Credit: Gift of Mr and Mrs Kessler-Hülsmann, Kapelle op den Bosch

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: 30 × 40 in, filling the paper (trims 0.5 % of the picture)
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 × 40 in landscape print (76 × 102 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

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
5 × 7 in	trims 5.2 %	5 × 6½ in	5 × 7 in ready-made	9 × 11 in custom	11 × 13 in custom	967 dpi, crisp up close
8 × 10 in	trims 5.8 %	7½ × 10 in	8 × 10 in ready-made	12 × 14 in custom	14 × 16 in custom	634 dpi, crisp up close
11 × 14 in	trims 4.1 %	10½ × 14 in	11 × 14 in ready-made	15 × 18 in custom	17 × 20 in custom	461 dpi, crisp up close
12 × 16 in	trims 0.5 %	12 × 16 in	12 × 16 in ready-made	16 × 20 in ready-made	18 × 22 in custom	423 dpi, crisp up close
16 × 20 in	trims 5.8 %	15 × 20 in	16 × 20 in ready-made	20 × 24 in ready-made	22 × 26 in custom	317 dpi, crisp up close
18 × 24 in	trims 0.5 %	18 × 24 in	18 × 24 in ready-made	22 × 28 in ready-made	24 × 30 in ready-made	282 dpi, crisp from a step back
30 × 40 in	trims 0.5 %	30 × 39¾ in	30 × 40 in ready-made	34 × 44 in custom	36 × 46 in custom	169 dpi, crisp from a step back
36 × 48 in	trims 0.5 %	36 × 47¾ in	36 × 48 in ready-made	40 × 52 in custom	42 × 54 in custom	141 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 × 420 px from Room Paintings
Web image 843 × 632 px from Rijksmuseum
Print file 2,000 × 1,499 px from Rijksmuseum
Original file 6,775 × 5,078 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.