A woman stands drinking from a tall glass as two men sit at a table in a courtyard enclosed by wood paneling and brick buildings in this vertical painting. The people all have pale, peachy skin.

A Dutch Courtyard

Pieter de Hooch (Dutch, 1629–1684)

Date: 1658/1660
Medium: oil on canvas
Size: 27¼ × 23½ in (69.5 × 60 cm)
Museum: National Gallery of Art, Washington, accession 1937.1.56. See the museum’s record
Credit: Andrew W. Mellon Collection

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

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Where Print size

Print: 18 × 21 in, the whole painting on 18 × 24 in paper
Center: 58 in (147 cm) above the stair line

18 × 21 in portrait print (46 × 53 cm), centered 58 in above the stair line. Drawn to scale on a 12 × 8 ft wall.

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Print it

No standard paper matches this painting’s proportions closely, so print it whole with a white border, or trim the edges to fill the paper.

Paper	Filling the paper	Printed whole	Frame	Frame with a 2 in mat	Frame with a 3 in mat	Sharpness
8 × 10 in	trims 7.3 %	8 × 9¼ in	8 × 10 in ready-made	12 × 14 in custom	14 × 16 in custom	2016 dpi, crisp up close
11 × 14 in	trims 9 %	11 × 12¾ in	11 × 14 in ready-made	15 × 18 in custom	17 × 20 in custom	1472 dpi, crisp up close
12 × 16 in	trims 13.1 %	12 × 14 in	12 × 16 in ready-made	16 × 20 in ready-made	18 × 22 in custom	1349 dpi, crisp up close
16 × 20 in	trims 7.3 %	16 × 18½ in	16 × 20 in ready-made	20 × 24 in ready-made	22 × 26 in custom	1012 dpi, crisp up close
18 × 24 in	trims 13.1 %	18 × 21 in	18 × 24 in ready-made	22 × 28 in ready-made	24 × 30 in ready-made	897 dpi, crisp up close
30 × 40 in	trims 13.1 %	30 × 34¾ in	30 × 40 in ready-made	34 × 44 in custom	36 × 46 in custom	538 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) 484 × 560 px from Room Paintings
Web image 728 × 843 px from National Gallery of Art
Print file 1,727 × 2,000 px from National Gallery of Art
Original file 16,193 × 18,755 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.