This painting shows a brown jug filled with pink roses and green leaves on a brown surface that looks like a suitcase on its side. To the right of the jug are some stacked books, which are a light green color.

The Artist's Paint Box and Moss Roses

Édouard Vuillard (French, 1868–1940)

Date: 1898
Medium: oil on cardboard
Size: 14¼ × 17 in (36.1 × 42.9 cm)
Museum: National Gallery of Art, Washington, accession 1970.17.98. See the museum’s record
Credit: Ailsa Mellon Bruce Collection

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 % of the picture)
Center: 47¼ in (120 cm) from the floor
Above the console table: 8 in (20 cm) from the console table to the frame
Ideal width: 36 to 41 in over a 54 in console table
Why this height: Centered at eye level, this frame would not sit 6 to 10 in above the console table, so the 8 in gap sets the height.

16 × 20 in landscape print (41 × 51 cm), centered 47¼ in from the floor, 8 in above the console table. 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 %	8 × 9½ in	8 × 10 in ready-made	12 × 14 in custom	14 × 16 in custom	658 dpi, crisp up close
16 × 20 in	trims 5 %	16 × 19 in	16 × 20 in ready-made	20 × 24 in ready-made	22 × 26 in custom	329 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) 560 × 470 px from Room Paintings
Web image 843 × 707 px from National Gallery of Art
Print file 2,000 × 1,678 px from National Gallery of Art
Original file 6,580 × 5,519 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.