Pushing for Rail

Thomas Eakins (American, 1844–1916)

Date: 1874
Medium: Oil on canvas
Size: 13 × 30 in (33 × 76.4 cm)
Museum: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, accession 16.65. See the museum’s record
Credit: Arthur Hoppock Hearn Fund, 1916

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

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

Where Print size

Print: 20 × 46¼ in, the whole painting on 20 × 60 in paper
Center: 53¼ in (135 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.

20 × 46¼ in panoramic print (51 × 118 cm), centered 53¼ 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 39.5 %	3 × 7 in	5 × 7 in ready-made	9 × 11 in custom	11 × 13 in custom	544 dpi, crisp up close
12 × 16 in	trims 42.4 %	7 × 16 in	12 × 16 in ready-made	16 × 20 in ready-made	18 × 22 in custom	238 dpi, crisp from a step back
12 × 36 in	trims 22.8 %	12 × 27¾ in	12 × 36 in custom	16 × 40 in custom	18 × 42 in custom	137 dpi, soft up close
20 × 30 in	trims 35.2 %	13 × 30 in	20 × 30 in ready-made	24 × 34 in custom	26 × 36 in custom	127 dpi, soft up close
24 × 36 in	trims 35.2 %	15½ × 36 in	24 × 36 in ready-made	28 × 40 in custom	30 × 42 in custom	105 dpi, soft up close
20 × 60 in	trims 22.8 %	20 × 46¼ in	20 × 60 in custom	24 × 64 in custom	26 × 66 in custom	82 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.

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

Thumbnail (WebP) 560 × 249 px from Room Paintings
Web image 598 × 266 px from The Met
Print and original file 3,811 × 1,694 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.