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A woman with pale skin, wearing a silvery-gray dress adorned with white ribbons and light pink roses, stands looking out at us with a small, pug dog by her feet in this vertical portrait painting.

The Marquesa de Pontejos

Francisco de Goya (Spanish, 1746–1828)

Date
c. 1786
Medium
oil on canvas
Size
82¾ × 50 in (210.3 × 127 cm)
Museum
National Gallery of Art, Washington, accession 1937.1.85. 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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Hang it

Pick the furniture and a print size to see it to scale on your wall.

Print
24¼ × 40 in, the whole painting on 30 × 40 in paper
Center
58 in (147 cm) from the floor
The Marquesa de Pontejos: a 24¼ × 40 in print hung on a plain wall, drawn to scale on a 12 × 8 ft wall
24¼ × 40 in portrait print (61 × 102 cm), centered 58 in from the floor. 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 15.4 % 4¼ × 7 in 5 × 7 in ready-made 9 × 11 in custom 11 × 13 in custom 2647 dpi, crisp up close
12 × 16 in trims 19.5 % 9¾ × 16 in 12 × 16 in ready-made 16 × 20 in ready-made 18 × 22 in custom 1148 dpi, crisp up close
18 × 24 in trims 19.5 % 14½ × 24 in 18 × 24 in ready-made 22 × 28 in ready-made 24 × 30 in ready-made 768 dpi, crisp up close
20 × 30 in trims 9.4 % 18 × 30 in 20 × 30 in ready-made 24 × 34 in custom 26 × 36 in custom 615 dpi, crisp up close
24 × 36 in trims 9.4 % 21¾ × 36 in 24 × 36 in ready-made 28 × 40 in custom 30 × 42 in custom 513 dpi, crisp up close
30 × 40 in trims 19.5 % 24¼ × 40 in 30 × 40 in ready-made 34 × 44 in custom 36 × 46 in custom 460 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).

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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