A woman wearing a crimson-red brocade dress and gold jewelry fills most of this vertical portrait, but her right hand, on our left, rests on the shoulder of a young boy tucked into the lower left corner of the panel.

A Young Woman and Her Little Boy

Agnolo Bronzino (Italian, 1503–1572)

Date: c. 1540
Medium: oil on panel
Size: 39¼ × 30 in (99.5 × 76 cm)
Museum: National Gallery of Art, Washington, accession 1942.9.6. See the museum’s record
Credit: Widener Collection

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

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Where Print size

Print: 18 × 24 in, filling the paper (trims 1.8 % of the picture)
Center: 58 in (147 cm) above the stair line

18 × 24 in portrait print (46 × 61 cm), centered 58 in above the stair line. 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
8 × 10 in	trims 4.5 %	7½ × 10 in	8 × 10 in ready-made	12 × 14 in custom	14 × 16 in custom	1675 dpi, crisp up close
11 × 14 in	trims 2.8 %	10¾ × 14 in	11 × 14 in ready-made	15 × 18 in custom	17 × 20 in custom	1218 dpi, crisp up close
12 × 16 in	trims 1.8 %	12 × 15¾ in	12 × 16 in ready-made	16 × 20 in ready-made	18 × 22 in custom	1096 dpi, crisp up close
16 × 20 in	trims 4.5 %	15¼ × 20 in	16 × 20 in ready-made	20 × 24 in ready-made	22 × 26 in custom	837 dpi, crisp up close
18 × 24 in	trims 1.8 %	18 × 23½ in	18 × 24 in ready-made	22 × 28 in ready-made	24 × 30 in ready-made	730 dpi, crisp up close
30 × 40 in	trims 1.8 %	30 × 39¼ in	30 × 40 in ready-made	34 × 44 in custom	36 × 46 in custom	438 dpi, crisp up close
36 × 48 in	trims 1.8 %	36 × 47 in	36 × 48 in ready-made	40 × 52 in custom	42 × 54 in custom	365 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) 428 × 560 px from Room Paintings
Web image 644 × 843 px from National Gallery of Art
Print file 1,528 × 2,000 px from National Gallery of Art
Original file 13,406 × 17,542 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.