This painting shows a woman standing in front of a wooden dresser with a mirror, her back to us. We can see her face reflected in the mirror. She is gazing at her reflection with both of her hands lifted towards her slightly tilted face.

The Toilet

Eastman Johnson (American, 1824–1906)

Date: 1873
Medium: oil on paper board
Size: 26¼ × 22¼ in (66.5 × 56.2 cm)
Museum: National Gallery of Art, Washington, accession 2015.19.85. See the museum’s record
Credit: Corcoran Collection (Gift of Captain A. S. Hickey, USN (Ret.), in memory of his wife, Caryl Crawford Hickey, 1957)

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

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Where Print size

Print: 16 × 20 in, filling the paper (trims 5.3 % 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 5.3 %	8 × 9½ in	8 × 10 in ready-made	12 × 14 in custom	14 × 16 in custom	1854 dpi, crisp up close
16 × 20 in	trims 5.3 %	16 × 19 in	16 × 20 in ready-made	20 × 24 in ready-made	22 × 26 in custom	927 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) 480 × 560 px from Room Paintings
Web image 722 × 843 px from National Gallery of Art
Print file 1,714 × 2,000 px from National Gallery of Art
Original file 15,888 × 18,544 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.