A small, shaggy, black and white dog stands in a wood paneled room with its body angled to our right but turning its head, pink tongue out, to our left in this vertical painting.

Tama, the Japanese Dog

Édouard Manet (French, 1832–1883)

Date: c. 1875
Medium: oil on canvas
Size: 24 × 19¾ in (61 × 50 cm)
Museum: National Gallery of Art, Washington, accession 1995.47.12. 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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Where Print size

Print: 16 × 20 in, filling the paper (trims 2.4 % 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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Print it

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 2.4 %	8 × 9¾ in	8 × 10 in ready-made	12 × 14 in custom	14 × 16 in custom	1293 dpi, crisp up close
11 × 14 in	trims 4.2 %	11 × 13½ in	11 × 14 in ready-made	15 × 18 in custom	17 × 20 in custom	924 dpi, crisp up close
16 × 20 in	trims 2.4 %	16 × 19½ in	16 × 20 in ready-made	20 × 24 in ready-made	22 × 26 in custom	646 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) 454 × 560 px from Room Paintings
Web image 684 × 843 px from National Gallery of Art
Print file 1,623 × 2,000 px from National Gallery of Art
Original file 10,501 × 12,939 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.