Shown from the shins up, two elegantly dressed women and two young boys, all with light skin, sit together on a bench in front of a stone balustrade with a forest landscape beyond in this horizontal portrait painting.

The Marquise de Pezay, and the Marquise de Rougé with Her Sons Alexis and Adrien

Élisabeth Louise Vigée Le Brun (French, 1755–1842)

Date
1787
Medium
oil on canvas
Size
48½ × 61½ in (123.4 × 155.9 cm)
Museum
National Gallery of Art, Washington, accession 1964.11.1. See the museum’s record
Credit
Purchased as the Gift of the Bay Foundation in memory of Josephine Bay Paul and Ambassador Charles Ulrick Bay

Public domain image courtesy of the National Gallery of Art (Open Access, CC0).

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Print
36 × 48 in, filling the paper (trims 5.3 % of the picture)
Center
61¼ in (156 cm) from the floor
Above the sofa
8 in (20 cm) from the sofa to the frame
Ideal width
56 to 63 in over an 84 in sofa
Why this height
Centered at eye level, this frame would not sit 6 to 10 in above the sofa, so the 8 in gap sets the height.
The Marquise de Pezay, and the Marquise de Rougé with Her Sons Alexis and Adrien: a 36 × 48 in print hung above a sofa, drawn to scale on a 12 × 8 ft wall
36 × 48 in landscape print (91 × 122 cm), centered 61¼ in from the floor, 8 in above the sofa. Drawn to scale on a 12 × 8 ft wall.

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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.