A windmill stands on a promontory cutting into a waterway under a partially stormy sky in this square landcape painting.

The Mill

Rembrandt van Rijn (Dutch, 1606–1669)

Date: 1645/1648
Medium: oil on canvas
Size: 34½ × 41½ in (87.6 × 105.6 cm)
Museum: National Gallery of Art, Washington, accession 1942.9.62. See the museum’s record
Credit: Widener Collection

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

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Where Print size

Print: 16 × 20 in, filling the paper (trims 3.6 % of the picture)
Center: 65¼ in (166 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.

16 × 20 in landscape print (41 × 51 cm), centered 65¼ in from the floor, 8 in above the headboard. 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 3.6 %	8 × 9½ in	8 × 10 in ready-made	12 × 14 in custom	14 × 16 in custom	2218 dpi, crisp up close
11 × 14 in	trims 5.3 %	11 × 13¼ in	11 × 14 in ready-made	15 × 18 in custom	17 × 20 in custom	1584 dpi, crisp up close
16 × 20 in	trims 3.6 %	16 × 19¼ in	16 × 20 in ready-made	20 × 24 in ready-made	22 × 26 in custom	1109 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) 560 × 468 px from Room Paintings
Web image 843 × 704 px from National Gallery of Art
Print file 2,000 × 1,671 px from National Gallery of Art
Original file 22,180 × 18,526 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.