Painting in tones of gray and brown, with some green and blue, of a woman digging with a garden tool before a structure with a thatched roof that descends almost to the ground. Above her the sky is gray and blue, a haze of clouds.

A Peasant Woman Digging in Front of Her Cottage

Vincent van Gogh (Dutch, 1853–1890)

Date: c. 1885
Medium: Oil on canvas
Size: 12¼ × 16½ in (31.3 × 42 cm)
Museum: Art Institute of Chicago, accession 1968.92. See the museum’s record
Credit: Bequest of Dr. John J. Ireland

Public domain image courtesy of the Art Institute of Chicago (CC0).

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Where Print size

Print: 30 × 40 in, filling the paper (trims 0.6 % of the picture)
Center: 54¼ in (138 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.

30 × 40 in landscape print (76 × 102 cm), centered 54¼ in from the floor, 8 in above the console table. Drawn to scale on a 12 × 8 ft wall.

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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
5 × 7 in	trims 4.1 %	5 × 6¾ in	5 × 7 in ready-made	9 × 11 in custom	11 × 13 in custom	285 dpi, crisp from a step back
11 × 14 in	trims 5.2 %	10½ × 14 in	11 × 14 in ready-made	15 × 18 in custom	17 × 20 in custom	136 dpi, soft up close
12 × 16 in	trims 0.6 %	12 × 16 in	12 × 16 in ready-made	16 × 20 in ready-made	18 × 22 in custom	124 dpi, soft up close
18 × 24 in	trims 0.6 %	18 × 24 in	18 × 24 in ready-made	22 × 28 in ready-made	24 × 30 in ready-made	83 dpi, soft up close
30 × 40 in	trims 0.6 %	29¾ × 40 in	30 × 40 in ready-made	34 × 44 in custom	36 × 46 in custom	49 dpi, soft up close
36 × 48 in	trims 0.6 %	35¾ × 48 in	36 × 48 in ready-made	40 × 52 in custom	42 × 54 in custom	41 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 × 420 px from Room Paintings
Web image 843 × 632 px from Art Institute of Chicago
Print file 2,000 × 1,499 px from Art Institute of Chicago
The museum’s record of this painting Art Institute of Chicago

Public domain image courtesy of the Art Institute of Chicago (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.