This painting shows an adult woman and two children on a white lounge chair. The adult is sitting on the chair with her legs extended, supporting one of the children who is lying across her lap.

My Family

George Bellows (American, 1882–1925)

Date: 1916
Medium: oil on canvas
Size: 59½ × 66 in (151 × 167.8 cm)
Museum: National Gallery of Art, Washington, accession 1983.1.3. See the museum’s record
Credit: Collection of Mr. and Mrs. Paul Mellon

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

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

Where Print size

Print: 21½ × 24 in, the whole painting on 24 × 24 in paper
Center: 66 in (168 cm) from the floor
Above the mantel: 6 in (15 cm) from the mantel to the frame
Ideal width: 44 to 50 in over a 66 in mantel
Why this height: Centered at eye level, this frame would not sit 4 to 8 in above the mantel, so the 6 in gap sets the height.

21½ × 24 in landscape print (55 × 61 cm), centered 66 in from the floor, 6 in above the mantel. 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
8 × 10 in	trims 11.1 %	8 × 9 in	8 × 10 in ready-made	12 × 14 in custom	14 × 16 in custom	2089 dpi, crisp up close
12 × 12 in	trims 10 %	10¾ × 12 in	12 × 12 in ready-made	16 × 16 in ready-made	18 × 18 in custom	1549 dpi, crisp up close
16 × 16 in	trims 10 %	14½ × 16 in	16 × 16 in ready-made	20 × 20 in ready-made	22 × 22 in custom	1162 dpi, crisp up close
16 × 20 in	trims 11.1 %	16 × 17¾ in	16 × 20 in ready-made	20 × 24 in ready-made	22 × 26 in custom	1044 dpi, crisp up close
20 × 20 in	trims 10 %	18 × 20 in	20 × 20 in ready-made	24 × 24 in ready-made	26 × 26 in custom	929 dpi, crisp up close
24 × 24 in	trims 10 %	21½ × 24 in	24 × 24 in ready-made	28 × 28 in custom	30 × 30 in custom	774 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).

Thumbnail (WebP) 560 × 507 px from Room Paintings
Web image 843 × 763 px from National Gallery of Art
Print file 2,000 × 1,811 px from National Gallery of Art
Original file 18,599 × 16,844 px from National Gallery of Art
The museum’s record of this painting National Gallery of Art

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.