A Watermill

Meindert Hobbema (Dutch, 1638–1709)

Date: c. 1664
Medium: oil on panel
Size: 24½ × 33¾ in (62 × 85.5 cm)
Museum: Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam, accession SK-C-144. See the museum’s record
Credit: On loan from the City of Amsterdam (A. van der Hoop Bequest)

Public domain image courtesy of the Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam (Public Domain Mark).

Palette

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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: 36 × 48 in, filling the paper (trims 3.3 % 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.

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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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 1.5 %	5 × 7 in	5 × 7 in ready-made	9 × 11 in custom	11 × 13 in custom	823 dpi, crisp up close
12 × 16 in	trims 3.3 %	11½ × 16 in	12 × 16 in ready-made	16 × 20 in ready-made	18 × 22 in custom	343 dpi, crisp up close
18 × 24 in	trims 3.3 %	17½ × 24 in	18 × 24 in ready-made	22 × 28 in ready-made	24 × 30 in ready-made	228 dpi, crisp from a step back
30 × 40 in	trims 3.3 %	29 × 40 in	30 × 40 in ready-made	34 × 44 in custom	36 × 46 in custom	137 dpi, soft up close
36 × 48 in	trims 3.3 %	34¾ × 48 in	36 × 48 in ready-made	40 × 52 in custom	42 × 54 in custom	114 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 (Public Domain Mark).

Thumbnail (WebP) 560 × 399 px from Room Paintings
Web image 843 × 600 px from Rijksmuseum
Print file 2,000 × 1,423 px from Rijksmuseum
Original file 5,784 × 4,116 px from Rijksmuseum
The museum’s record of this painting Rijksmuseum

Public domain image courtesy of the Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam (Public Domain Mark). 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.