The image shows three individuals against a natural background. On the left, a man is seated on the ground, his body wrapped in a beige cloth. He has long, dark hair and a solemn expression, holding a long pipe.

Old Menomonie Chief with Two Young Beaux

George Catlin (American, 1796–1872)

Date: 1861/1869
Medium: oil on card mounted on paperboard
Size: 18½ × 24½ in (47.2 × 62.1 cm)
Museum: National Gallery of Art, Washington, accession 1965.16.99. See the museum’s record
Credit: Paul 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.

Where Print size

Print: 36 × 48 in, filling the paper (trims 1.3 % of the picture)
Center: 61¼ in (156 cm) from the floor
Above the sofa: 8 in (20 cm) from the sofa to the frame
Ideal width: 56 to 63 in over an 84 in sofa
Why this height: Centered at eye level, this frame would not sit 6 to 10 in above the sofa, so the 8 in gap sets the height.

36 × 48 in landscape print (91 × 122 cm), centered 61¼ in from the floor, 8 in above the sofa. Drawn to scale on a 12 × 8 ft wall.

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Print it

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 5 %	7½ × 10 in	8 × 10 in ready-made	12 × 14 in custom	14 × 16 in custom	592 dpi, crisp up close
11 × 14 in	trims 3.3 %	10½ × 14 in	11 × 14 in ready-made	15 × 18 in custom	17 × 20 in custom	430 dpi, crisp up close
12 × 16 in	trims 1.3 %	12 × 15¾ in	12 × 16 in ready-made	16 × 20 in ready-made	18 × 22 in custom	380 dpi, crisp up close
16 × 20 in	trims 5 %	15¼ × 20 in	16 × 20 in ready-made	20 × 24 in ready-made	22 × 26 in custom	296 dpi, crisp from a step back
18 × 24 in	trims 1.3 %	18 × 23¾ in	18 × 24 in ready-made	22 × 28 in ready-made	24 × 30 in ready-made	253 dpi, crisp from a step back
30 × 40 in	trims 1.3 %	30 × 39½ in	30 × 40 in ready-made	34 × 44 in custom	36 × 46 in custom	152 dpi, crisp from a step back
36 × 48 in	trims 1.3 %	36 × 47½ in	36 × 48 in ready-made	40 × 52 in custom	42 × 54 in custom	126 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) 560 × 436 px from Room Paintings
Web image 843 × 656 px from National Gallery of Art
Print file 2,000 × 1,557 px from National Gallery of Art
Original file 6,086 × 4,739 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.