Shown from the lap up a pale-skinned young girl sits in a grassy landscape in this vertical painting. The girl and surroundings are painted with visible strokes and dashes of mostly vivid greens and blues, which give the scene a soft look.

Peasant Girl with a Straw Hat

Camille Pissarro (French, 1830–1903)

Date: 1881
Medium: oil on canvas
Size: 28¾ × 23½ in (73.3 × 59.5 cm)
Museum: National Gallery of Art, Washington, accession 1970.17.52. See the museum’s record
Credit: Ailsa Mellon Bruce Collection

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

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Print: 16 × 20 in, filling the paper (trims 1.5 % of the picture)
Center: 58 in (147 cm) above the stair line

16 × 20 in portrait print (41 × 51 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 1.5 %	8 × 10 in	8 × 10 in ready-made	12 × 14 in custom	14 × 16 in custom	1597 dpi, crisp up close
11 × 14 in	trims 3.2 %	11 × 13½ in	11 × 14 in ready-made	15 × 18 in custom	17 × 20 in custom	1140 dpi, crisp up close
16 × 20 in	trims 1.5 %	16 × 19¾ in	16 × 20 in ready-made	20 × 24 in ready-made	22 × 26 in custom	798 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) 457 × 560 px from Room Paintings
Web image 688 × 843 px from National Gallery of Art
Print file 1,633 × 2,000 px from National Gallery of Art
Original file 13,041 × 15,970 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.