Two pale-skinned women are shown from the waist up behind a counter in an interior space in this nearly square painting.

Woman in a Striped Dress

Édouard Vuillard (French, 1868–1940)

Date: 1895
Medium: oil on canvas
Size: 25¾ × 23 in (65.7 × 58.7 cm)
Museum: National Gallery of Art, Washington, accession 1983.1.38. 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: 21½ × 24 in, the whole painting on 24 × 24 in paper
Center: 58 in (147 cm) above the stair line

21½ × 24 in portrait print (54 × 61 cm), centered 58 in above the stair line. 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 10.4 %	8 × 9 in	8 × 10 in ready-made	12 × 14 in custom	14 × 16 in custom	897 dpi, crisp up close
12 × 12 in	trims 10.7 %	10¾ × 12 in	12 × 12 in ready-made	16 × 16 in ready-made	18 × 18 in custom	673 dpi, crisp up close
16 × 16 in	trims 10.7 %	14¼ × 16 in	16 × 16 in ready-made	20 × 20 in ready-made	22 × 22 in custom	505 dpi, crisp up close
16 × 20 in	trims 10.4 %	16 × 18 in	16 × 20 in ready-made	20 × 24 in ready-made	22 × 26 in custom	451 dpi, crisp up close
20 × 20 in	trims 10.7 %	18 × 20 in	20 × 20 in ready-made	24 × 24 in ready-made	26 × 26 in custom	404 dpi, crisp up close
24 × 24 in	trims 10.7 %	21½ × 24 in	24 × 24 in ready-made	28 × 28 in custom	30 × 30 in custom	336 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) 503 × 560 px from Room Paintings
Web image 757 × 843 px from National Gallery of Art
Print file 1,795 × 2,000 px from National Gallery of Art
Original file 7,253 × 8,081 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.