The Shepherd's Song

Pierre Puvis de Chavannes (French, 1824–1898)

Date: 1891
Medium: Oil on canvas
Size: 41¼ × 43¼ in (104.5 × 109.9 cm)
Museum: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, accession 06.177. See the museum’s record
Credit: Rogers Fund, 1906

Public domain image courtesy of The Metropolitan Museum of Art (Open Access, CC0).

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Where Print size

Print: 24 × 24 in, filling the paper (trims 4.9 % of the picture)
Center: 67¼ in (171 cm) from the floor
Above the mantel: 6 in (15 cm) from the mantel to the frame
Ideal width: 44 to 50 in over a 66 in mantel
Why this height: Centered at eye level, this frame would not sit 4 to 8 in above the mantel, so the 6 in gap sets the height.

24 × 24 in square print (61 × 61 cm), centered 67¼ in from the floor, 6 in above the mantel. 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
12 × 12 in	trims 4.9 %	11½ × 12 in	12 × 12 in ready-made	16 × 16 in ready-made	18 × 18 in custom	319 dpi, crisp up close
16 × 16 in	trims 4.9 %	15¼ × 16 in	16 × 16 in ready-made	20 × 20 in ready-made	22 × 22 in custom	239 dpi, crisp from a step back
20 × 20 in	trims 4.9 %	19 × 20 in	20 × 20 in ready-made	24 × 24 in ready-made	26 × 26 in custom	191 dpi, crisp from a step back
24 × 24 in	trims 4.9 %	22¾ × 24 in	24 × 24 in ready-made	28 × 28 in custom	30 × 30 in custom	159 dpi, crisp from a step back

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 × 537 px from Room Paintings
Web image 600 × 575 px from The Met
Print and original file 4,000 × 3,836 px from The Met
The museum’s record of this painting The Met

Public domain image courtesy of The Metropolitan 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.