This painting shows two women seated on yellow-gold chairs in a room. The woman on the left appears young, with short brown hair and light skin.

Women Sewing

Édouard Vuillard (French, 1868–1940)

Date: c. 1912
Medium: glue on paper on canvas
Size: 70¾ × 37¾ in (179.9 × 95.9 cm)
Museum: National Gallery of Art, Washington, accession 1985.64.43. 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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Pick the furniture and a print size to see it to scale on your wall.

Where Print size

Print: 20 × 37½ in, the whole painting on 20 × 60 in paper
Center: 58 in (147 cm) above the stair line

20 × 37½ in portrait print (51 × 95 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
5 × 7 in	trims 25.4 %	3¾ × 7 in	5 × 7 in ready-made	9 × 11 in custom	11 × 13 in custom	737 dpi, crisp up close
12 × 16 in	trims 28.9 %	8½ × 16 in	12 × 16 in ready-made	16 × 20 in ready-made	18 × 22 in custom	321 dpi, crisp up close
12 × 36 in	trims 37.5 %	12 × 22½ in	12 × 36 in custom	16 × 40 in custom	18 × 42 in custom	227 dpi, crisp from a step back
20 × 30 in	trims 20 %	16 × 30 in	20 × 30 in ready-made	24 × 34 in custom	26 × 36 in custom	170 dpi, crisp from a step back
24 × 36 in	trims 20 %	19¼ × 36 in	24 × 36 in ready-made	28 × 40 in custom	30 × 42 in custom	142 dpi, soft up close
20 × 60 in	trims 37.5 %	20 × 37½ in	20 × 60 in custom	24 × 64 in custom	26 × 66 in custom	136 dpi, soft 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) 295 × 560 px from Room Paintings
Web image 444 × 843 px from National Gallery of Art
Print file 1,053 × 2,000 px from National Gallery of Art
Original file 2,729 × 5,182 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.