Four women with pale, peach skin, wearing long white dresses, stand or sit on a sunny beach in this wide, horizontal painting. People and carriages are painted as hazy gray silhouettes spread along the beach in the distance.

East Hampton Beach, Long Island

Winslow Homer (American, 1836–1910)

Date: 1874
Medium: oil on canvas
Size: 10¼ × 21¾ in (25.8 × 55.1 cm)
Museum: National Gallery of Art, Washington, accession 2012.89.2. See the museum’s record
Credit: Collection of Mr. and Mrs. Paul Mellon

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

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Hang it

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

Where Print size

Print: 18¾ × 40 in, the whole painting on 30 × 40 in paper
Center: 52½ in (134 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.

18¾ × 40 in panoramic print (47 × 102 cm), centered 52½ 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 34.5 %	3¼ × 7 in	5 × 7 in ready-made	9 × 11 in custom	11 × 13 in custom	1841 dpi, crisp up close
12 × 16 in	trims 37.6 %	7½ × 16 in	12 × 16 in ready-made	16 × 20 in ready-made	18 × 22 in custom	810 dpi, crisp up close
18 × 24 in	trims 37.6 %	11¼ × 24 in	18 × 24 in ready-made	22 × 28 in ready-made	24 × 30 in ready-made	542 dpi, crisp up close
20 × 30 in	trims 29.8 %	14 × 30 in	20 × 30 in ready-made	24 × 34 in custom	26 × 36 in custom	434 dpi, crisp up close
24 × 36 in	trims 29.8 %	17 × 36 in	24 × 36 in ready-made	28 × 40 in custom	30 × 42 in custom	359 dpi, crisp up close
30 × 40 in	trims 37.6 %	18¾ × 40 in	30 × 40 in ready-made	34 × 44 in custom	36 × 46 in custom	324 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 × 258 px from Room Paintings
Web image 843 × 389 px from National Gallery of Art
Print file 2,000 × 923 px from National Gallery of Art
Original file 13,170 × 6,076 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.