Landscape painting featuring a wavy tree tree in the foreground and a watermill with a red roof adjacent to a river at right. Colors are subdued earth tones, the foliage a dark green and the river a muddy brown.

The Watermill with the Great Red Roof

Meindert Hobbema (Dutch, 1638–1709)

Date: c. 1665
Medium: Oil on canvas
Size: 32 × 43¼ in (81.3 × 110 cm)
Museum: Art Institute of Chicago, accession 1894.1031. See the museum’s record
Credit: Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Frank G. Logan

Public domain image courtesy of the Art Institute of Chicago (CC0).

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Where Print size

Print: 36 × 48 in, filling the paper (trims 1.5 % 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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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 3.4 %	5 × 6¾ in	5 × 7 in ready-made	9 × 11 in custom	11 × 13 in custom	285 dpi, crisp from a step back
11 × 14 in	trims 5.9 %	10¼ × 14 in	11 × 14 in ready-made	15 × 18 in custom	17 × 20 in custom	134 dpi, soft 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	123 dpi, soft up close
18 × 24 in	trims 1.5 %	17¾ × 24 in	18 × 24 in ready-made	22 × 28 in ready-made	24 × 30 in ready-made	82 dpi, soft up close
30 × 40 in	trims 1.5 %	29½ × 40 in	30 × 40 in ready-made	34 × 44 in custom	36 × 46 in custom	49 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	41 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 × 413 px from Room Paintings
Web image 843 × 622 px from Art Institute of Chicago
Print file 2,000 × 1,476 px from Art Institute of Chicago
The museum’s record of this painting Art Institute of Chicago

Public domain image courtesy of the Art Institute of Chicago (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.