A pale-skinned woman sits on a red velvet chair, which is almost entirely hidden by her voluminous, dark emerald-green and gold gown, in this vertical portrait painting.

Marchesa Balbi

Anthony van Dyck (Flemish, 1599–1641)

Date: c. 1623
Medium: oil on canvas
Size: 77¼ × 52¾ in (196.5 × 133.8 cm)
Museum: National Gallery of Art, Washington, accession 1937.1.49. See the museum’s record
Credit: Andrew W. Mellon Collection

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

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Where Print size

Print: 24 × 36 in, filling the paper (trims 2.1 % of the picture)
Center: 58 in (147 cm) from the floor

24 × 36 in portrait print (61 × 91 cm), centered 58 in from the floor. Drawn to scale on a 12 × 8 ft wall.

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Print it

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
5 × 7 in	trims 4.7 %	4¾ × 7 in	5 × 7 in ready-made	9 × 11 in custom	11 × 13 in custom	677 dpi, crisp up close
20 × 30 in	trims 2.1 %	20 × 29½ in	20 × 30 in ready-made	24 × 34 in custom	26 × 36 in custom	168 dpi, crisp from a step back
24 × 36 in	trims 2.1 %	24 × 35¼ in	24 × 36 in ready-made	28 × 40 in custom	30 × 42 in custom	140 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) 375 × 560 px from Room Paintings
Web image 565 × 843 px from National Gallery of Art
Print file 1,341 × 2,000 px from National Gallery of Art
Original file 3,386 × 5,049 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.