Every size drawn to scale on one wall, above the sofa in a photographed room. Sizes are the canvas; a frame adds a little on every side.
Print proof — This is the exact file our printer receives for this size, so what you see here is what gets printed, edge to edge. Use it to see how much margin a size leaves and, before you buy a large size, to check the sharpness in the 100% close-up.
edge of the print
The file
Actual pixels at this size
Colors on a screen can look slightly different from ink on canvas. This file goes to the printer automatically when you order, and your piece ships straight from the print studio to you.
Living room 1 / 9
Wall color
Rooms to scale: each was measured against a 5 ft 6 in figure, so the print is drawn at its true size against the furniture. Rooms and people are generated images. Swipe the room, tap a dot, or press Next room to see the print in another room. Drag the print to try another spot (or move it with the arrow keys); switch sizes above to compare.
Step 1 — set the scale. Drag the slider until the gold bar on the photo is the height of a standard doorway (80 in / 203 cm). Every size you pick is then drawn true to life.
Step 2 — drag the print to where it would hang, and change size or frame above to compare.
Source scan:Cleveland Museum of Art, 1994.93 (Open Access, CC0) Rights statement of the archive: “Public domain. Constant Alexandre Famin (died 1888); the museum dates this work 1860s-1870s. The Cleveland Museum of Art releases its photograph of it under Creative Commons Zero (CC0 1.0). Accession number 1994.93.” Original print: Constant Alexandre Famin, 1860s-1870s, albumen print from wet collodion negative. Verified 2026-10-16.
This product is a new print made to order from a restored scan of that print. It is not an original antique and is not sold as one.
Study of a Birch Tree, Barbizon
The story of this print
One birch leans through the middle of the picture. The bottom of its trunk is dark and rough, the top white and peeling, and it forks into pale branches whose leaves are soft with movement, stirred by the wind during the exposure. Behind it a dark wood opens onto a bright clearing with more slender birches.
Constant Alexandre Famin (1827–1888) made photographic studies of trees, animals and figures that painters bought to copy and borrow from. The museum compares this one to an Impressionist painting: one tree, isolated, the light and the moving leaves doing the work.
The tall shape suits a narrow wall; it pairs naturally with Le Gray’s Fontainebleau and Atget’s roots.
Before and after
Left: the archive scan exactly as published. Right: the file that goes to the printer.
What we did to this scan
Cropped by hand to the edge of the printed sheet.
Balanced the levels and took out the scanner’s color cast, keeping 50% of the paper’s age tone.
Toned to neutral black and white, taking out the brown of the old paper or albumen print.
Cleaned dust and specks picked up by the scanner.
A light sharpen, so fine lines and lettering hold at large sizes.
About this particular sheet. Made from the Cleveland Museum of Art's scan of the albumen print. The brown or purple tone the old print has taken on with age was taken out, so it prints as a neutral black and white, and it was cropped evenly to a canvas shape.
Every print is credited to its archive here and in your order confirmation. Paper tone and small imperfections of the original are kept on purpose; nothing is redrawn. How we restore.
Questions
What does it show?
A white birch with a dark, scarred trunk leans across the picture and divides into pale branches, their leaves blurred by the wind, in front of a dark wood and a bright clearing.
Is this an original?
No. It is a new print made from the Cleveland Museum of Art's photograph of the albumen print in its collection. We never sell originals or antiques.
Where does the image come from?
From the Cleveland Museum of Art, which releases its photograph of this work under Creative Commons Zero (CC0) as part of its Open Access program. The photograph was made in the 1860s–1870s; Famin died in 1888, so the work is in the public domain. The museum record (accession 1994.93) is linked on this page.
How is it made?
It is printed to order for you, in the finish you choose: a float frame canvas, a classic frame canvas, a stretched canvas, a rolled canvas or an acrylic panel. Both frames come in Black or Antique Gold. The size and finish picker shows which sizes each finish is made in.
Colors vary a little between screens and canvas. The previews are drawn, not photographed, and are a close match to the printed piece.
Every size, one wall
All 5 sizes of this print, side by side
To scale, framed, with a 5 ft 6 in figure for reference — so you can see the steps between sizes at a glance before you pick one above.
32×48 in81×122 cm
24×36 in61×91 cm
20×30 in51×76 cm
16×24 in41×61 cm
12×18 in30×46 cm
5′6″ · 168 cm
Left to right: 32×48 in · 24×36 in · 20×30 in · 16×24 in · 12×18 in
Every size to scale on one wall, framed in Black, beside a 5 ft 6 in figure. Room photograph generated for scale; the figure is 5 ft 6 in.
Swipe sideways along the wall to see every size
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