Roiling, churning waves breaking against a patch of a sandy beach fill most of this wide, horizontal landscape painting. The water deepens from aquamarine blue to teal, slate, and midnight blue amid clouds of ivory-white crests and spray.

The Much Resounding Sea

Thomas Moran (American, 1837–1926)

Date: 1884
Medium: oil on canvas
Size: 25¼ × 62¼ in (63.9 × 158.2 cm)
Museum: National Gallery of Art, Washington, accession 1967.9.1. See the museum’s record
Credit: Gift of the Avalon Foundation

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

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Where Print size

Print: 20 × 49½ 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 × 49½ in panoramic print (51 × 126 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 43.5 %	2¾ × 7 in	5 × 7 in ready-made	9 × 11 in custom	11 × 13 in custom	4165 dpi, crisp up close
12 × 16 in	trims 46.1 %	6½ × 16 in	12 × 16 in ready-made	16 × 20 in ready-made	18 × 22 in custom	1794 dpi, crisp up close
12 × 36 in	trims 17.5 %	12 × 29¾ in	12 × 36 in custom	16 × 40 in custom	18 × 42 in custom	972 dpi, crisp up close
20 × 30 in	trims 39.4 %	12 × 30 in	20 × 30 in ready-made	24 × 34 in custom	26 × 36 in custom	963 dpi, crisp up close
24 × 36 in	trims 39.4 %	14½ × 36 in	24 × 36 in ready-made	28 × 40 in custom	30 × 42 in custom	804 dpi, crisp up close
20 × 60 in	trims 17.5 %	20 × 49½ in	20 × 60 in custom	24 × 64 in custom	26 × 66 in custom	583 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 × 223 px from Room Paintings
Web image 843 × 336 px from National Gallery of Art
Print file 2,000 × 797 px from National Gallery of Art
Original file 29,253 × 11,664 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.