In this painting, a wicker basket is filled with yellow pears and a few red cherries. The basket rests on a table, and more pears and cherries are scattered in front of it, casting shadows on the white tablecloth.

Basket of Pears and Crabapples

John F. Francis (American, 1808–1886)

Date: n.d.
Medium: oil on board
Size: 11½ × 12¾ in (29.5 × 32.4 cm)
Museum: National Gallery of Art, Washington, accession 2018.44.5. See the museum’s record
Credit: Gift of William and Abigail Gerdts

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

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Where Print size

Print: 22 × 24 in, the whole painting on 24 × 24 in paper
Center: 50¼ in (128 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.

22 × 24 in landscape print (56 × 61 cm), centered 50¼ in from the floor, 8 in above the console table. Drawn to scale on a 12 × 8 ft wall.

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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 12.2 %	8 × 8¾ in	8 × 10 in ready-made	12 × 14 in custom	14 × 16 in custom	1448 dpi, crisp up close
12 × 12 in	trims 8.9 %	11 × 12 in	12 × 12 in ready-made	16 × 16 in ready-made	18 × 18 in custom	1062 dpi, crisp up close
16 × 16 in	trims 8.9 %	14½ × 16 in	16 × 16 in ready-made	20 × 20 in ready-made	22 × 22 in custom	796 dpi, crisp up close
16 × 20 in	trims 12.2 %	16 × 17½ in	16 × 20 in ready-made	20 × 24 in ready-made	22 × 26 in custom	724 dpi, crisp up close
20 × 20 in	trims 8.9 %	18¼ × 20 in	20 × 20 in ready-made	24 × 24 in ready-made	26 × 26 in custom	637 dpi, crisp up close
24 × 24 in	trims 8.9 %	22 × 24 in	24 × 24 in ready-made	28 × 28 in custom	30 × 30 in custom	531 dpi, crisp 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 × 513 px from Room Paintings
Web image 843 × 773 px from National Gallery of Art
Print file 2,000 × 1,833 px from National Gallery of Art
Original file 12,748 × 11,686 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.