This is a landscape painting depicting a body of water surrounded by greenery, with tall green and purple mountains in the background under a sky full of dark pink clouds and a strip of bright blue-green.

The Entrance to the Tautira River, Tahiti. Fisherman Spearing a Fish

John La Farge (American, 1835–1910)

Date: c. 1895
Medium: oil on canvas
Size: 53½ × 60 in (136 × 152.4 cm)
Museum: National Gallery of Art, Washington, accession 1966.6.1. See the museum’s record
Credit: Adolph Caspar Miller Fund

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

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Where Print size

Print: 21½ × 24 in, the whole painting on 24 × 24 in paper
Center: 68 in (173 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.

21½ × 24 in landscape print (54 × 61 cm), centered 68 in from the floor, 8 in above the headboard. 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 10.3 %	8 × 9 in	8 × 10 in ready-made	12 × 14 in custom	14 × 16 in custom	1675 dpi, crisp up close
12 × 12 in	trims 10.8 %	10¾ × 12 in	12 × 12 in ready-made	16 × 16 in ready-made	18 × 18 in custom	1256 dpi, crisp up close
16 × 16 in	trims 10.8 %	14¼ × 16 in	16 × 16 in ready-made	20 × 20 in ready-made	22 × 22 in custom	939 dpi, crisp up close
16 × 20 in	trims 10.3 %	16 × 18 in	16 × 20 in ready-made	20 × 24 in ready-made	22 × 26 in custom	840 dpi, crisp up close
20 × 20 in	trims 10.8 %	17¾ × 20 in	20 × 20 in ready-made	24 × 24 in ready-made	26 × 26 in custom	753 dpi, crisp up close
24 × 24 in	trims 10.8 %	21½ × 24 in	24 × 24 in ready-made	28 × 28 in custom	30 × 30 in custom	628 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 × 499 px from Room Paintings
Web image 843 × 751 px from National Gallery of Art
Print file 2,000 × 1,783 px from National Gallery of Art
Original file 15,078 × 13,440 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.