Glaucus and Nydia

Lawrence Alma-Tadema (British, born The Netherlands, 1836–1912)

Date: 1867
Medium: oil on wood panel
Size: 15¼ × 25¼ in (39 × 64.3 cm)
Museum: Cleveland Museum of Art, accession 1977.128. See the museum’s record
Credit: Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Noah L. Butkin

Public domain image courtesy of the Cleveland Museum of Art (Open Access, CC0).

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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: 24¼ × 40 in, the whole painting on 30 × 40 in paper
Center: 55½ in (141 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.

24¼ × 40 in landscape print (62 × 102 cm), centered 55½ in from the floor, 8 in above the sofa. Drawn to scale on a 12 × 8 ft wall.

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Print it

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
5 × 7 in	trims 15.1 %	4¼ × 7 in	5 × 7 in ready-made	9 × 11 in custom	11 × 13 in custom	772 dpi, crisp up close
12 × 16 in	trims 19.1 %	9¾ × 16 in	12 × 16 in ready-made	16 × 20 in ready-made	18 × 22 in custom	338 dpi, crisp up close
18 × 24 in	trims 19.1 %	14½ × 24 in	18 × 24 in ready-made	22 × 28 in ready-made	24 × 30 in ready-made	225 dpi, crisp from a step back
20 × 30 in	trims 9 %	18¼ × 30 in	20 × 30 in ready-made	24 × 34 in custom	26 × 36 in custom	180 dpi, crisp from a step back
24 × 36 in	trims 9 %	21¾ × 36 in	24 × 36 in ready-made	28 × 40 in custom	30 × 42 in custom	150 dpi, crisp from a step back
30 × 40 in	trims 19.1 %	24¼ × 40 in	30 × 40 in ready-made	34 × 44 in custom	36 × 46 in custom	135 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 (CC0).

Thumbnail (WebP) 560 × 341 px from Room Paintings
Web image 1,263 × 769 px from Cleveland Museum of Art
Print file 3,400 × 2,070 px from Cleveland Museum of Art
Original file 5,408 × 3,293 px from Cleveland Museum of Art
The museum’s record of this painting Cleveland Museum of Art

Public domain image courtesy of the Cleveland 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.