Villa Malta, Rome

Sanford Robinson Gifford (American, 1823–1880)

Date: 1879
Medium: oil on canvas
Size: 13¼ × 27¼ in (33.6 × 69.5 cm)
Museum: Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington, accession 1909.9.9. See the museum’s record
Credit: Smithsonian American Art Museum, Gift of William T. Evans

Public domain image courtesy of the Smithsonian American Art Museum (Smithsonian Open Access, CC0).

Palette

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Hang it

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

Where Print size

Print: 19¼ × 40 in, the whole painting on 30 × 40 in paper
Center: 53 in (134 cm) from the floor
Above the sofa: 8 in (20 cm) from the sofa to the frame
Ideal width: 56 to 63 in over an 84 in sofa
Why this height: Centered at eye level, this frame would not sit 6 to 10 in above the sofa, so the 8 in gap sets the height.

19¼ × 40 in panoramic print (49 × 102 cm), centered 53 in from the floor, 8 in above the sofa. 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
5 × 7 in	trims 32.3 %	3½ × 7 in	5 × 7 in ready-made	9 × 11 in custom	11 × 13 in custom	419 dpi, crisp up close
12 × 16 in	trims 35.5 %	7¾ × 16 in	12 × 16 in ready-made	16 × 20 in ready-made	18 × 22 in custom	185 dpi, crisp from a step back
18 × 24 in	trims 35.5 %	11½ × 24 in	18 × 24 in ready-made	22 × 28 in ready-made	24 × 30 in ready-made	122 dpi, soft up close
20 × 30 in	trims 27.5 %	14½ × 30 in	20 × 30 in ready-made	24 × 34 in custom	26 × 36 in custom	98 dpi, soft up close
24 × 36 in	trims 27.5 %	17½ × 36 in	24 × 36 in ready-made	28 × 40 in custom	30 × 42 in custom	81 dpi, soft up close
30 × 40 in	trims 35.5 %	19¼ × 40 in	30 × 40 in ready-made	34 × 44 in custom	36 × 46 in custom	73 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.

Download

Free for any use, including commercial: this image is public domain (CC0).

Thumbnail (WebP) 560 × 266 px from Room Paintings
Web image 842 × 400 px from Smithsonian American Art Museum
Print file 2,000 × 951 px from Smithsonian American Art Museum
Original file 3,000 × 1,426 px from Smithsonian American Art Museum
The museum’s record of this painting Smithsonian American Art Museum

Public domain image courtesy of the Smithsonian American Art Museum (Smithsonian 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.