Worthington Whittredge

Emanuel Leutze (German American, 1816–1868)

Date: 1856
Medium: Oil on canvas
Size: 50¾ × 40½ in (129.2 × 102.9 cm)
Museum: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, accession 03.16. See the museum’s record
Credit: Gift of Several Gentlemen, 1903

Public domain image courtesy of The Metropolitan Museum of Art (Open Access, CC0).

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Where Print size

Print: 18 × 24 in, filling the paper (trims 5.8 % of the picture)
Center: 58 in (147 cm) above the stair line

18 × 24 in portrait print (46 × 61 cm), centered 58 in above the stair line. 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 0.5 %	8 × 10 in	8 × 10 in ready-made	12 × 14 in custom	14 × 16 in custom	339 dpi, crisp up close
11 × 14 in	trims 1.3 %	11 × 13¾ in	11 × 14 in ready-made	15 × 18 in custom	17 × 20 in custom	247 dpi, crisp from a step back
12 × 16 in	trims 5.8 %	12 × 15 in	12 × 16 in ready-made	16 × 20 in ready-made	18 × 22 in custom	226 dpi, crisp from a step back
16 × 20 in	trims 0.5 %	16 × 20 in	16 × 20 in ready-made	20 × 24 in ready-made	22 × 26 in custom	169 dpi, crisp from a step back
18 × 24 in	trims 5.8 %	18 × 22½ in	18 × 24 in ready-made	22 × 28 in ready-made	24 × 30 in ready-made	151 dpi, crisp from a step back
30 × 40 in	trims 5.8 %	30 × 37¾ in	30 × 40 in ready-made	34 × 44 in custom	36 × 46 in custom	90 dpi, soft up close
36 × 48 in	trims 5.8 %	36 × 45¼ in	36 × 48 in ready-made	40 × 52 in custom	42 × 54 in custom	75 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) 393 × 560 px from Room Paintings
Web image 439 × 625 px from The Met
Print and original file 2,719 × 3,871 px from The Met
The museum’s record of this painting The Met

Public domain image courtesy of The Metropolitan Museum 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.