Louis-Marie, Vicomte de Noailles

Gilbert Stuart (American, 1755–1828)

Date: 1798
Medium: Oil on canvas
Size: 50 × 40 in (127 × 101.6 cm)
Museum: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, accession 1970.262. See the museum’s record
Credit: Purchase, Henry R. Luce Gift, Elihu Root Jr. Bequest, Rogers Fund, Maria DeWitt Jesup Fund, Morris K. Jesup Fund and Charles and Anita Blatt Gift, 1970

Public domain image courtesy of The Metropolitan Museum of Art (Open Access, CC0).

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Where Print size

Print: 16 × 20 in, filling the paper
Center: 58 in (147 cm) above the stair line

16 × 20 in portrait print (41 × 51 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	no trim	8 × 10 in	8 × 10 in ready-made	12 × 14 in custom	14 × 16 in custom	368 dpi, crisp up close
11 × 14 in	trims 1.8 %	11 × 13¾ in	11 × 14 in ready-made	15 × 18 in custom	17 × 20 in custom	265 dpi, crisp from a step back
16 × 20 in	no trim	16 × 20 in	16 × 20 in ready-made	20 × 24 in ready-made	22 × 26 in custom	184 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) 443 × 560 px from Room Paintings
Web image 494 × 624 px from The Met
Print and original file 2,946 × 3,722 px from The Met
The museum’s record of this painting The Met

Public domain image courtesy of The Metropolitan 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.