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Portrait of a Woman in Gray, Edgar Degas, ca. 1865, oil on canvas

Portrait of a Woman in Gray

Edgar Degas (French, 1834–1917)

Date
ca. 1865
Medium
Oil on canvas
Size
36 × 28½ in (91.4 × 72.4 cm)
Museum
The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, accession 57.171. See the museum’s record
Credit
Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Edwin C. Vogel, 1957

Public domain image courtesy of The Metropolitan Museum of Art (Open Access, CC0).

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Print
18 × 24 in, filling the paper (trims 5.3 % of the picture)
Center
58 in (147 cm) above the stair line
Portrait of a Woman in Gray: an 18 × 24 in print hung beside a staircase, drawn to scale on a 12 × 8 ft wall
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 1 % 8 × 10 in 8 × 10 in ready-made 12 × 14 in custom 14 × 16 in custom 369 dpi, crisp up close
11 × 14 in trims 0.8 % 11 × 14 in 11 × 14 in ready-made 15 × 18 in custom 17 × 20 in custom 265 dpi, crisp from a step back
12 × 16 in trims 5.3 % 12 × 15¼ in 12 × 16 in ready-made 16 × 20 in ready-made 18 × 22 in custom 232 dpi, crisp from a step back
16 × 20 in trims 1 % 15¾ × 20 in 16 × 20 in ready-made 20 × 24 in ready-made 22 × 26 in custom 184 dpi, crisp from a step back
18 × 24 in trims 5.3 % 18 × 22¾ in 18 × 24 in ready-made 22 × 28 in ready-made 24 × 30 in ready-made 155 dpi, crisp from a step back
30 × 40 in trims 5.3 % 30 × 38 in 30 × 40 in ready-made 34 × 44 in custom 36 × 46 in custom 93 dpi, soft up close
36 × 48 in trims 5.3 % 36 × 45½ in 36 × 48 in ready-made 40 × 52 in custom 42 × 54 in custom 77 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).

Public domain image courtesy of The Metropolitan Museum 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.

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