Rachel Ruysch (1664–1750)

Rachel Ruysch (Dutch, 1664–1750)

Date: 1692
Medium: Oil on canvas
Size: 30 × 25 in (76.2 × 63.5 cm)
Museum: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, accession 2023.91. See the museum’s record
Credit: Purchase, Adele Veronica Satkus Bequest, Walter and Leonore Annenberg Acquisitions Endowment Fund, Lila Acheson Wallace, Women and the Critical Eye, Charles and Jessie Price, and Henry and Lucy Moses Fund Inc. Gifts, Victor Wilbour Memorial Fund, Hester Diamond Gift, and funds from various donors, 2023

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

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Where Print size

Print: 16 × 20 in, filling the paper (trims 4 % of the picture)
Center: 58 in (147 cm) above the stair line

16 × 20 in portrait print (41 × 51 cm), centered 58 in above the stair line. 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
8 × 10 in	trims 4 %	8 × 9½ in	8 × 10 in ready-made	12 × 14 in custom	14 × 16 in custom	400 dpi, crisp up close
11 × 14 in	trims 5.7 %	11 × 13¼ in	11 × 14 in ready-made	15 × 18 in custom	17 × 20 in custom	285 dpi, crisp from a step back
16 × 20 in	trims 4 %	16 × 19¼ in	16 × 20 in ready-made	20 × 24 in ready-made	22 × 26 in custom	200 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) 472 × 560 px from Room Paintings
Web image 527 × 625 px from The Met
Print and original file 3,375 × 4,000 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.