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Shown from the chest up, a young, pale-skinned boy dressed in black turns to face us in this vertical portrait painting.

René de Gas

Edgar Degas (French, 1834–1917)

Date
1855
Medium
oil on canvas
Size
15¼ × 12¾ in (38.6 × 32.1 cm)
Museum
National Gallery of Art, Washington, accession 1995.47.8. See the museum’s record
Credit
Collection of Mr. and Mrs. Paul Mellon

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 3.8 % of the picture)
Center
58 in (147 cm) above the stair line
René de Gas: a 16 × 20 in print hung beside a staircase, drawn to scale on a 12 × 8 ft wall
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 3.8 % 8 × 9½ in 8 × 10 in ready-made 12 × 14 in custom 14 × 16 in custom 1036 dpi, crisp up close
11 × 14 in trims 5.6 % 11 × 13¼ in 11 × 14 in ready-made 15 × 18 in custom 17 × 20 in custom 740 dpi, crisp up close
16 × 20 in trims 3.8 % 16 × 19¼ in 16 × 20 in ready-made 20 × 24 in ready-made 22 × 26 in custom 518 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).

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.

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