A woman pushes aside a deep golden yellow curtain that fills three-quarters of this nearly square painting.

The Yellow Curtain

Édouard Vuillard (French, 1868–1940)

Date: c. 1893
Medium: oil on canvas
Size: 13¾ × 15¼ in (34.7 × 38.7 cm)
Museum: National Gallery of Art, Washington, accession 1970.17.95. 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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Hang it

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

Where Print size

Print: 21½ × 24 in, the whole painting on 24 × 24 in paper
Center: 50 in (127 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.

21½ × 24 in landscape print (55 × 61 cm), centered 50 in from the floor, 8 in above the console table. Drawn to scale on a 12 × 8 ft wall.

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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 10.8 %	8 × 9 in	8 × 10 in ready-made	12 × 14 in custom	14 × 16 in custom	1017 dpi, crisp up close
12 × 12 in	trims 10.3 %	10¾ × 12 in	12 × 12 in ready-made	16 × 16 in ready-made	18 × 18 in custom	753 dpi, crisp up close
16 × 16 in	trims 10.3 %	14¼ × 16 in	16 × 16 in ready-made	20 × 20 in ready-made	22 × 22 in custom	569 dpi, crisp up close
16 × 20 in	trims 10.8 %	16 × 17¾ in	16 × 20 in ready-made	20 × 24 in ready-made	22 × 26 in custom	508 dpi, crisp up close
20 × 20 in	trims 10.3 %	18 × 20 in	20 × 20 in ready-made	24 × 24 in ready-made	26 × 26 in custom	454 dpi, crisp up close
24 × 24 in	trims 10.3 %	21½ × 24 in	24 × 24 in ready-made	28 × 28 in custom	30 × 30 in custom	378 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 × 500 px from Room Paintings
Web image 843 × 752 px from National Gallery of Art
Print file 2,000 × 1,785 px from National Gallery of Art
Original file 9,124 × 8,142 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.