The Gulf Stream

Winslow Homer (American, 1836–1910)

Date: 1899; reworked by 1906
Medium: Oil on canvas
Size: 28 × 49¼ in (71.4 × 124.8 cm)
Museum: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, accession 06.1234. See the museum’s record
Credit: Catharine Lorillard Wolfe Collection, Wolfe Fund, 1906

Public domain image courtesy of The Metropolitan Museum 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: 23 × 40 in, the whole painting on 30 × 40 in paper
Center: 54¾ in (139 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.

23 × 40 in landscape print (58 × 102 cm), centered 54¾ 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 19.9 %	4 × 7 in	5 × 7 in ready-made	9 × 11 in custom	11 × 13 in custom	571 dpi, crisp up close
12 × 16 in	trims 23.7 %	9¼ × 16 in	12 × 16 in ready-made	16 × 20 in ready-made	18 × 22 in custom	250 dpi, crisp from a step back
18 × 24 in	trims 23.7 %	13¾ × 24 in	18 × 24 in ready-made	22 × 28 in ready-made	24 × 30 in ready-made	166 dpi, crisp from a step back
20 × 30 in	trims 14.2 %	17¼ × 30 in	20 × 30 in ready-made	24 × 34 in custom	26 × 36 in custom	133 dpi, soft up close
24 × 36 in	trims 14.2 %	20½ × 36 in	24 × 36 in ready-made	28 × 40 in custom	30 × 42 in custom	111 dpi, soft up close
30 × 40 in	trims 23.7 %	23 × 40 in	30 × 40 in ready-made	34 × 44 in custom	36 × 46 in custom	100 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 × 345 px from Room Paintings
Web image 600 × 370 px from The Met
Print and original file 4,000 × 2,468 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.