Self-Portrait at Spurveskjul

Vilhelm Hammershøi (Danish, 1864–1916)

Date: 1911
Medium: Oil on canvas
Size: 35½ × 39¼ in (90.2 × 100 cm)
Museum: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, accession 2020.287. See the museum’s record
Credit: Gift of Charles Hack and the Hearn Family Trust, in honor of Keith Christiansen, and in celebration of the Museum's 150th Anniversary, 2020

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

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Where Print size

Print: 21½ × 24 in, the whole painting on 24 × 24 in paper
Center: 66 in (168 cm) from the floor
Above the mantel: 6 in (15 cm) from the mantel to the frame
Ideal width: 44 to 50 in over a 66 in mantel
Why this height: Centered at eye level, this frame would not sit 4 to 8 in above the mantel, so the 6 in gap sets the height.

21½ × 24 in landscape print (55 × 61 cm), centered 66 in from the floor, 6 in above the mantel. 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
8 × 10 in	trims 11.3 %	8 × 9 in	8 × 10 in ready-made	12 × 14 in custom	14 × 16 in custom	449 dpi, crisp up close
12 × 12 in	trims 9.8 %	10¾ × 12 in	12 × 12 in ready-made	16 × 16 in ready-made	18 × 18 in custom	333 dpi, crisp up close
16 × 16 in	trims 9.8 %	14½ × 16 in	16 × 16 in ready-made	20 × 20 in ready-made	22 × 22 in custom	250 dpi, crisp from a step back
16 × 20 in	trims 11.3 %	16 × 17¾ in	16 × 20 in ready-made	20 × 24 in ready-made	22 × 26 in custom	225 dpi, crisp from a step back
20 × 20 in	trims 9.8 %	18 × 20 in	20 × 20 in ready-made	24 × 24 in ready-made	26 × 26 in custom	200 dpi, crisp from a step back
24 × 24 in	trims 9.8 %	21½ × 24 in	24 × 24 in ready-made	28 × 28 in custom	30 × 30 in custom	166 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 × 509 px from Room Paintings
Web image 599 × 544 px from The Met
Print and original file 4,000 × 3,633 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.