Paying the Hostess

Pieter de Hooch (Dutch, 1629–1684)

Date: ca. 1670
Medium: Oil on canvas
Size: 37¼ × 43¾ in (94.6 × 111.1 cm)
Museum: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, accession 58.144. See the museum’s record
Credit: Gift of Stuart Borchard and Evelyn B. Metzger, 1958

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

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Pick the furniture and a print size to see it to scale on your wall.

Where Print size

Print: 30 × 35¼ in, the whole painting on 30 × 40 in paper
Center: 72¼ in (184 cm) from the floor
Above the headboard: 8 in (20 cm) from the headboard to the frame
Ideal width: 40 to 45 in over a 60 in headboard
Why this height: Centered at eye level, this frame would not sit 6 to 10 in above the headboard, so the 8 in gap sets the height.

30 × 35¼ in landscape print (76 × 89 cm), centered 72¼ in from the floor, 8 in above the headboard. 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 6.1 %	8 × 9½ in	8 × 10 in ready-made	12 × 14 in custom	14 × 16 in custom	404 dpi, crisp up close
11 × 14 in	trims 7.8 %	11 × 13 in	11 × 14 in ready-made	15 × 18 in custom	17 × 20 in custom	294 dpi, crisp from a step back
12 × 16 in	trims 12 %	12 × 14 in	12 × 16 in ready-made	16 × 20 in ready-made	18 × 22 in custom	269 dpi, crisp from a step back
16 × 20 in	trims 6.1 %	16 × 18¾ in	16 × 20 in ready-made	20 × 24 in ready-made	22 × 26 in custom	202 dpi, crisp from a step back
18 × 24 in	trims 12 %	18 × 21 in	18 × 24 in ready-made	22 × 28 in ready-made	24 × 30 in ready-made	179 dpi, crisp from a step back
30 × 40 in	trims 12 %	30 × 35¼ in	30 × 40 in ready-made	34 × 44 in custom	36 × 46 in custom	107 dpi, soft 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 × 478 px from Room Paintings
Web image 599 × 511 px from The Met
Print and original file 3,799 × 3,239 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.