This painting depicts a landscape with an open green field stretching out into the distance. At the bottom of the painting, there is a rocky area with sparse vegetation and yellow, sun-bleached grass.

Countryside in Picardy

Théodore Rousseau (French, 1812–1867)

Date: 1860
Medium: oil on canvas
Size: 8¾ × 10¾ in (22.2 × 27.3 cm)
Museum: National Gallery of Art, Washington, accession 2015.19.47. See the museum’s record
Credit: Corcoran Collection (William A. Clark Collection, 1926)

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 1.6 % of the picture)
Center: 47¼ in (120 cm) from the floor
Above the console table: 8 in (20 cm) from the console table to the frame
Ideal width: 36 to 41 in over a 54 in console table
Why this height: Centered at eye level, this frame would not sit 6 to 10 in above the console table, so the 8 in gap sets the height.

16 × 20 in landscape print (41 × 51 cm), centered 47¼ in from the floor, 8 in above the console table. Drawn to scale on a 12 × 8 ft wall.

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Print it

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 1.6 %	8 × 9¾ in	8 × 10 in ready-made	12 × 14 in custom	14 × 16 in custom	1408 dpi, crisp up close
11 × 14 in	trims 3.4 %	11 × 13½ in	11 × 14 in ready-made	15 × 18 in custom	17 × 20 in custom	1006 dpi, crisp up close
16 × 20 in	trims 1.6 %	16 × 19¾ in	16 × 20 in ready-made	20 × 24 in ready-made	22 × 26 in custom	704 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 × 450 px from Room Paintings
Web image 843 × 678 px from National Gallery of Art
Print file 2,000 × 1,608 px from National Gallery of Art
Original file 14,085 × 11,324 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.