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About a dozen people, tiny in scale, flail their arms or huddle in small groups in a vast, mountainous landscape in this gold-toned, horizontal painting.

The Rape of Proserpine

Joseph Mallord William Turner (British, 1775–1851)

Date
1839
Medium
oil on canvas
Size
36½ × 48¾ in (92.6 × 123.7 cm)
Museum
National Gallery of Art, Washington, accession 1951.18.1. See the museum’s record
Credit
Gift of Mrs. Watson B. Dickerman

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

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Print
36 × 48 in, filling the paper (trims 0.2 % 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.
The Rape of Proserpine: a 36 × 48 in print hung above a sofa, drawn to scale on a 12 × 8 ft wall
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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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 4.6 % 5 × 6¾ in 5 × 7 in ready-made 9 × 11 in custom 11 × 13 in custom 1113 dpi, crisp up close
11 × 14 in trims 4.7 % 10½ × 14 in 11 × 14 in ready-made 15 × 18 in custom 17 × 20 in custom 522 dpi, crisp up close
12 × 16 in trims 0.2 % 12 × 16 in 12 × 16 in ready-made 16 × 20 in ready-made 18 × 22 in custom 478 dpi, crisp up close
18 × 24 in trims 0.2 % 18 × 24 in 18 × 24 in ready-made 22 × 28 in ready-made 24 × 30 in ready-made 319 dpi, crisp up close
30 × 40 in trims 0.2 % 30 × 40 in 30 × 40 in ready-made 34 × 44 in custom 36 × 46 in custom 191 dpi, crisp from a step back
36 × 48 in trims 0.2 % 36 × 48 in 36 × 48 in ready-made 40 × 52 in custom 42 × 54 in custom 159 dpi, crisp from a step back

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).

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.

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