We look onto two black-headed ducks twisting and flailing midair against a slate-gray landscape in this horizontal painting. The silvery white body of the bird to our left faces us as its neck twists to our left, its black wings extended.

Right and Left

Winslow Homer (American, 1836–1910)

Date: 1909
Medium: oil on canvas
Size: 28¼ × 48½ in (71.8 × 122.9 cm)
Museum: National Gallery of Art, Washington, accession 1951.8.1. 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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Hang it

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

Where Print size

Print: 23½ × 40 in, the whole painting on 30 × 40 in paper
Center: 55 in (140 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.

23½ × 40 in landscape print (59 × 102 cm), centered 55 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 18.2 %	4 × 7 in	5 × 7 in ready-made	9 × 11 in custom	11 × 13 in custom	5115 dpi, crisp up close
12 × 16 in	trims 22.1 %	9¼ × 16 in	12 × 16 in ready-made	16 × 20 in ready-made	18 × 22 in custom	2255 dpi, crisp up close
18 × 24 in	trims 22.1 %	14 × 24 in	18 × 24 in ready-made	22 × 28 in ready-made	24 × 30 in ready-made	1498 dpi, crisp up close
20 × 30 in	trims 12.4 %	17½ × 30 in	20 × 30 in ready-made	24 × 34 in custom	26 × 36 in custom	1198 dpi, crisp up close
24 × 36 in	trims 12.4 %	21 × 36 in	24 × 36 in ready-made	28 × 40 in custom	30 × 42 in custom	998 dpi, crisp up close
30 × 40 in	trims 22.1 %	23½ × 40 in	30 × 40 in ready-made	34 × 44 in custom	36 × 46 in custom	896 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 × 324 px from Room Paintings
Web image 843 × 488 px from National Gallery of Art
Print file 2,000 × 1,158 px from National Gallery of Art
Original file 36,241 × 20,975 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.