Four young women with medium brown skin sit or stand on a pumpkin-orange ground in this horizontal painting. The women are divided into pairs by a broad, gold, undulating brushstroke running down the middle of the ground they occupy.

Te Pape Nave Nave (Delectable Waters)

Paul Gauguin (French, 1848–1903)

Date: 1898
Medium: oil on canvas
Size: 29¼ × 37½ in (74 × 95.3 cm)
Museum: National Gallery of Art, Washington, accession 1973.68.2. See the museum’s record
Credit: Collection of Mr. and Mrs. Paul Mellon

Public domain image courtesy of the National Gallery 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: 36 × 48 in, filling the paper (trims 3.4 % 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
8 × 10 in	trims 3 %	7¾ × 10 in	8 × 10 in ready-made	12 × 14 in custom	14 × 16 in custom	1645 dpi, crisp up close
11 × 14 in	trims 1.2 %	11 × 14 in	11 × 14 in ready-made	15 × 18 in custom	17 × 20 in custom	1196 dpi, crisp up close
12 × 16 in	trims 3.4 %	12 × 15½ in	12 × 16 in ready-made	16 × 20 in ready-made	18 × 22 in custom	1057 dpi, crisp up close
16 × 20 in	trims 3 %	15½ × 20 in	16 × 20 in ready-made	20 × 24 in ready-made	22 × 26 in custom	822 dpi, crisp up close
18 × 24 in	trims 3.4 %	18 × 23¼ in	18 × 24 in ready-made	22 × 28 in ready-made	24 × 30 in ready-made	704 dpi, crisp up close
30 × 40 in	trims 3.4 %	30 × 38½ in	30 × 40 in ready-made	34 × 44 in custom	36 × 46 in custom	422 dpi, crisp up close
36 × 48 in	trims 3.4 %	36 × 46½ in	36 × 48 in ready-made	40 × 52 in custom	42 × 54 in custom	352 dpi, crisp 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 × 436 px from Room Paintings
Web image 843 × 656 px from National Gallery of Art
Print file 2,000 × 1,556 px from National Gallery of Art
Original file 16,917 × 13,162 px from National Gallery of Art
The museum’s record of this painting National Gallery of Art

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.