Shown from the knees up, a woman wearing an ice- and teal-blue dress and shawl sits in front of a window in this vertical painting. The scene is painted loosely with brushstrokes especially evident in the clothing and background.

The New York Window

Childe Hassam (American, 1859–1935)

Date: 1912
Medium: oil on canvas
Size: 45¾ × 35 in (116.5 × 89.1 cm)
Museum: National Gallery of Art, Washington, accession 2014.79.41. See the museum’s record
Credit: Corcoran Collection (Museum Purchase, Gallery Fund, 1912)

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 2 % 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 4.4 %	7¾ × 10 in	8 × 10 in ready-made	12 × 14 in custom	14 × 16 in custom	1876 dpi, crisp up close
11 × 14 in	trims 2.6 %	10¾ × 14 in	11 × 14 in ready-made	15 × 18 in custom	17 × 20 in custom	1364 dpi, crisp up close
12 × 16 in	trims 2 %	12 × 15¾ in	12 × 16 in ready-made	16 × 20 in ready-made	18 × 22 in custom	1236 dpi, crisp up close
16 × 20 in	trims 4.4 %	15¼ × 20 in	16 × 20 in ready-made	20 × 24 in ready-made	22 × 26 in custom	938 dpi, crisp up close
18 × 24 in	trims 2 %	18 × 23½ in	18 × 24 in ready-made	22 × 28 in ready-made	24 × 30 in ready-made	824 dpi, crisp up close
30 × 40 in	trims 2 %	30 × 39¼ in	30 × 40 in ready-made	34 × 44 in custom	36 × 46 in custom	494 dpi, crisp up close
36 × 48 in	trims 2 %	36 × 47 in	36 × 48 in ready-made	40 × 52 in custom	42 × 54 in custom	412 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) 425 × 560 px from Room Paintings
Web image 640 × 843 px from National Gallery of Art
Print file 1,518 × 2,000 px from National Gallery of Art
Original file 15,011 × 19,782 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.