Open Doorway, Morocco

John Singer Sargent (American, 1856–1925)

Date: 1879–80
Medium: Oil on wood
Size: 13¾ × 10¼ in (35.2 × 26 cm)
Museum: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, accession 50.130.5. See the museum’s record
Credit: Gift of Mrs. Francis Ormond, 1950

Public domain image courtesy of The Metropolitan Museum of Art (Open Access, CC0).

Palette

Closest wall colors:

Fits these rooms

Hallway & Entryway

Hang it

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

Where Print size

Print: 18 × 24 in, filling the paper (trims 1.5 % of the picture)
Center: 58 in (147 cm) above the stair line

18 × 24 in portrait print (46 × 61 cm), centered 58 in above the stair line. Drawn to scale on a 12 × 8 ft wall.

Try it on your wall color

Default greige

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 3.3 %	5 × 6¾ in	5 × 7 in ready-made	9 × 11 in custom	11 × 13 in custom	531 dpi, crisp up close
12 × 16 in	trims 1.5 %	11¾ × 16 in	12 × 16 in ready-made	16 × 20 in ready-made	18 × 22 in custom	231 dpi, crisp from a step back
18 × 24 in	trims 1.5 %	17¾ × 24 in	18 × 24 in ready-made	22 × 28 in ready-made	24 × 30 in ready-made	154 dpi, crisp from a step back
30 × 40 in	trims 1.5 %	29½ × 40 in	30 × 40 in ready-made	34 × 44 in custom	36 × 46 in custom	92 dpi, soft up close
36 × 48 in	trims 1.5 %	35½ × 48 in	36 × 48 in ready-made	40 × 52 in custom	42 × 54 in custom	77 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.

Download

Free for any use, including commercial: this image is public domain (CC0).

Thumbnail (WebP) 417 × 560 px from Room Paintings
Web image 465 × 624 px from The Met
Print and original file 2,775 × 3,722 px from The Met
The museum’s record of this painting The Met

Public domain image courtesy of The Metropolitan Museum 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.