Room Paintings Famous paintings, matched to your room.
Shown from about the hips up, a woman whose pale face is deep in shadow stands with her back to us, wearing a black and gray dress and hat, in front of a colorful but loosely painted, indistinct background in this nearly square painting.

Woman Viewed from Behind (Visit to a Museum)

Edgar Degas (French, 1834–1917)

Date
c. 1879-1885
Medium
oil on canvas
Size
32 × 29¾ in (81.3 × 75.6 cm)
Museum
National Gallery of Art, Washington, accession 1985.64.11. 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).

Palette

Closest wall colors:

Hang it

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

Print
22¼ × 24 in, the whole painting on 24 × 24 in paper
Center
58 in (147 cm) above the stair line
Woman Viewed from Behind (Visit to a Museum): a 22¼ × 24 in print hung beside a staircase, drawn to scale on a 12 × 8 ft wall
22¼ × 24 in portrait print (57 × 61 cm), centered 58 in above the stair line. Drawn to scale on a 12 × 8 ft wall.

Try it on your wall color

Default greige

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 14 % 8 × 8½ in 8 × 10 in ready-made 12 × 14 in custom 14 × 16 in custom 2004 dpi, crisp up close
12 × 12 in trims 7 % 11¼ × 12 in 12 × 12 in ready-made 16 × 16 in ready-made 18 × 18 in custom 1431 dpi, crisp up close
16 × 16 in trims 7 % 15 × 16 in 16 × 16 in ready-made 20 × 20 in ready-made 22 × 22 in custom 1076 dpi, crisp up close
16 × 20 in trims 14 % 16 × 17¼ in 16 × 20 in ready-made 20 × 24 in ready-made 22 × 26 in custom 1002 dpi, crisp up close
20 × 20 in trims 7 % 18½ × 20 in 20 × 20 in ready-made 24 × 24 in ready-made 26 × 26 in custom 862 dpi, crisp up close
24 × 24 in trims 7 % 22¼ × 24 in 24 × 24 in ready-made 28 × 28 in custom 30 × 30 in custom 719 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.

Download

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.

More like this

By Edgar Degas, or in the same style or subject.

All works by Edgar Degas