A nude, pale-skinned woman sits facing away from us on a surface with bunches of blue and green-toned fabrics in this vertical painting.

Nude Seated

Childe Hassam (American, 1859–1935)

Date: 1912
Medium: oil on canvas
Size: 24 × 22 in (61 × 55.9 cm)
Museum: National Gallery of Art, Washington, accession 1963.10.156. See the museum’s record
Credit: Chester Dale Collection

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

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Pick the furniture and a print size to see it to scale on your wall.

Where Print size

Print: 22 × 24 in, the whole painting on 24 × 24 in paper
Center: 58 in (147 cm) above the stair line

22 × 24 in portrait print (56 × 61 cm), centered 58 in above the stair line. 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
8 × 10 in	trims 12.7 %	8 × 8¾ in	8 × 10 in ready-made	12 × 14 in custom	14 × 16 in custom	867 dpi, crisp up close
12 × 12 in	trims 8.4 %	11 × 12 in	12 × 12 in ready-made	16 × 16 in ready-made	18 × 18 in custom	630 dpi, crisp up close
16 × 16 in	trims 8.4 %	14¾ × 16 in	16 × 16 in ready-made	20 × 20 in ready-made	22 × 22 in custom	472 dpi, crisp up close
16 × 20 in	trims 12.7 %	16 × 17½ in	16 × 20 in ready-made	20 × 24 in ready-made	22 × 26 in custom	433 dpi, crisp up close
20 × 20 in	trims 8.4 %	18¼ × 20 in	20 × 20 in ready-made	24 × 24 in ready-made	26 × 26 in custom	379 dpi, crisp up close
24 × 24 in	trims 8.4 %	22 × 24 in	24 × 24 in ready-made	28 × 28 in custom	30 × 30 in custom	315 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) 510 × 560 px from Room Paintings
Web image 767 × 843 px from National Gallery of Art
Print file 1,820 × 2,000 px from National Gallery of Art
Original file 6,940 × 7,625 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.