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This painting depicts a seated woman from the waist up. She has her right elbow resting on one arm of the red chair that she sits in, with her head leaning on her hand. Her left hand is holding white fabric in her lap.

Maria Gansevoort Melvill (Mrs. Allan Melvill)

Ezra Ames (American, 1768–1836)

Date
c. 1815
Medium
oil on wood
Size
30 × 23½ in (76.2 × 59.7 cm)
Museum
National Gallery of Art, Washington, accession 1947.17.20. See the museum’s record
Credit
Andrew W. Mellon Collection

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

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Print
18 × 24 in, filling the paper (trims 4.2 % of the picture)
Center
58 in (147 cm) above the stair line
Maria Gansevoort Melvill (Mrs. Allan Melvill): an 18 × 24 in print hung beside a staircase, drawn to scale on a 12 × 8 ft wall
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 2.1 % 7¾ × 10 in 8 × 10 in ready-made 12 × 14 in custom 14 × 16 in custom 656 dpi, crisp up close
11 × 14 in trims 0.3 % 11 × 14 in 11 × 14 in ready-made 15 × 18 in custom 17 × 20 in custom 477 dpi, crisp up close
12 × 16 in trims 4.2 % 12 × 15¼ in 12 × 16 in ready-made 16 × 20 in ready-made 18 × 22 in custom 424 dpi, crisp up close
16 × 20 in trims 2.1 % 15¾ × 20 in 16 × 20 in ready-made 20 × 24 in ready-made 22 × 26 in custom 328 dpi, crisp up close
18 × 24 in trims 4.2 % 18 × 23 in 18 × 24 in ready-made 22 × 28 in ready-made 24 × 30 in ready-made 283 dpi, crisp from a step back
30 × 40 in trims 4.2 % 30 × 38¼ in 30 × 40 in ready-made 34 × 44 in custom 36 × 46 in custom 169 dpi, crisp from a step back
36 × 48 in trims 4.2 % 36 × 46 in 36 × 48 in ready-made 40 × 52 in custom 42 × 54 in custom 141 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).

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.

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