Head of a Young Woman

François Boucher (French, 1703–1770)

Date: early 1730s
Medium: oil on canvas
Size: 12¾ × 10 in (32.4 × 25.6 cm)
Museum: Cleveland Museum of Art, accession 2012.95. See the museum’s record
Credit: Bequest of Muriel Butkin

Public domain image courtesy of the Cleveland Museum of Art (Open Access, CC0).

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Where Print size

Print: 18 × 24 in, filling the paper (trims 5.1 % 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 1.2 %	8 × 10 in	8 × 10 in ready-made	12 × 14 in custom	14 × 16 in custom	1022 dpi, crisp up close
11 × 14 in	trims 0.5 %	11 × 14 in	11 × 14 in ready-made	15 × 18 in custom	17 × 20 in custom	730 dpi, crisp up close
12 × 16 in	trims 5.1 %	12 × 15¼ in	12 × 16 in ready-made	16 × 20 in ready-made	18 × 22 in custom	638 dpi, crisp up close
16 × 20 in	trims 1.2 %	15¾ × 20 in	16 × 20 in ready-made	20 × 24 in ready-made	22 × 26 in custom	511 dpi, crisp up close
18 × 24 in	trims 5.1 %	18 × 22¾ in	18 × 24 in ready-made	22 × 28 in ready-made	24 × 30 in ready-made	425 dpi, crisp up close
30 × 40 in	trims 5.1 %	30 × 38 in	30 × 40 in ready-made	34 × 44 in custom	36 × 46 in custom	255 dpi, crisp from a step back
36 × 48 in	trims 5.1 %	36 × 45½ in	36 × 48 in ready-made	40 × 52 in custom	42 × 54 in custom	212 dpi, crisp from a step back

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) 477 × 560 px from Room Paintings
Web image 766 × 900 px from Cleveland Museum of Art
Print file 2,895 × 3,400 px from Cleveland Museum of Art
Original file 8,703 × 10,222 px from Cleveland Museum of Art
The museum’s record of this painting Cleveland Museum of Art

Public domain image courtesy of the Cleveland 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.