A glass bottle, a glass carafe, a stemmed glass, several pieces of fruit, and white and blue cloths are arranged on a wooden table in this horizontal still life. The bottle and carafe are at the center of this composition.

The Peppermint Bottle

Paul Cézanne (French, 1839–1906)

Date
1893/1895
Medium
oil on canvas
Size
26 × 32¼ in (65.9 × 82.1 cm)
Museum
National Gallery of Art, Washington, accession 1963.10.104. See the museum’s record
Credit
Chester Dale Collection

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

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Print
16 × 20 in, filling the paper (trims 0.3 % of the picture)
Center
51¼ in (130 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 Peppermint Bottle: a 16 × 20 in print hung above a sofa, drawn to scale on a 12 × 8 ft wall
16 × 20 in landscape print (41 × 51 cm), centered 51¼ in from the floor, 8 in above the sofa. Drawn to scale on a 12 × 8 ft wall.

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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.