We look across the tops of trees down onto the roofs of a cluster of buildings and then a grassy expanse, a body of water, and rolling hills in this notably wide landscape painting. The trees are painted with shades of pine and olive green.

Panoramic Landscape near the River Moselle

Théodore Rousseau (French, 1812–1867)

Date: c. 1830
Medium: oil on canvas
Size: 8¾ × 30 in (22.1 × 75.9 cm)
Museum: National Gallery of Art, Washington, accession 2003.40.1. See the museum’s record
Credit: Chester Dale Fund

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

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Where Print size

Print: 17½ × 60 in, the whole painting on 20 × 60 in paper
Center: 52 in (132 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.

17½ × 60 in panoramic print (44 × 152 cm), centered 52 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 59.2 %	2 × 7 in	5 × 7 in ready-made	9 × 11 in custom	11 × 13 in custom	2497 dpi, crisp up close
12 × 16 in	trims 61.2 %	4¾ × 16 in	12 × 16 in ready-made	16 × 20 in ready-made	18 × 22 in custom	1062 dpi, crisp up close
12 × 36 in	trims 12.6 %	10½ × 36 in	12 × 36 in custom	16 × 40 in custom	18 × 42 in custom	475 dpi, crisp up close
20 × 30 in	trims 56.3 %	8¾ × 30 in	20 × 30 in ready-made	24 × 34 in custom	26 × 36 in custom	574 dpi, crisp up close
24 × 36 in	trims 56.3 %	10½ × 36 in	24 × 36 in ready-made	28 × 40 in custom	30 × 42 in custom	475 dpi, crisp up close
20 × 60 in	trims 12.6 %	17½ × 60 in	20 × 60 in custom	24 × 64 in custom	26 × 66 in custom	285 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) 560 × 154 px from Room Paintings
Web image 843 × 232 px from National Gallery of Art
Print file 2,000 × 550 px from National Gallery of Art
Original file 18,156 × 4,994 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.