Man Handing a Letter to a Woman in the Entrance Hall of a House

Pieter de Hooch (Dutch, 1629–1684)

Date: 1670
Medium: oil on canvas
Size: 26¾ × 23¼ in (68 × 59 cm)
Museum: Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam, accession SK-C-147. See the museum’s record
Credit: On loan from the City of Amsterdam (A. van der Hoop Bequest)

Public domain image courtesy of the Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam (Public Domain Mark).

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Where Print size

Print: 18 × 20¾ in, the whole painting on 18 × 24 in paper
Center: 58 in (147 cm) above the stair line

18 × 20¾ 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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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 7.8 %	8 × 9¼ in	8 × 10 in ready-made	12 × 14 in custom	14 × 16 in custom	699 dpi, crisp up close
11 × 14 in	trims 9.5 %	11 × 12¾ in	11 × 14 in ready-made	15 × 18 in custom	17 × 20 in custom	507 dpi, crisp up close
12 × 16 in	trims 13.6 %	12 × 13¾ in	12 × 16 in ready-made	16 × 20 in ready-made	18 × 22 in custom	466 dpi, crisp up close
16 × 20 in	trims 7.8 %	16 × 18½ in	16 × 20 in ready-made	20 × 24 in ready-made	22 × 26 in custom	349 dpi, crisp up close
18 × 24 in	trims 13.6 %	18 × 20¾ in	18 × 24 in ready-made	22 × 28 in ready-made	24 × 30 in ready-made	311 dpi, crisp up close
30 × 40 in	trims 13.6 %	30 × 34½ in	30 × 40 in ready-made	34 × 44 in custom	36 × 46 in custom	186 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 (Public Domain Mark).

Thumbnail (WebP) 488 × 560 px from Room Paintings
Web image 734 × 843 px from Rijksmuseum
Print file 1,742 × 2,000 px from Rijksmuseum
Original file 5,609 × 6,439 px from Rijksmuseum
The museum’s record of this painting Rijksmuseum

Public domain image courtesy of the Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam (Public Domain Mark). 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.