A man with pale skin, wearing a black suit and hat, glides toward us on ice skates in this vertical portrait painting. The man’s body faces us but he turns his head to our right as he looks slightly down and off into the distance.

The Skater (Portrait of William Grant)

Gilbert Stuart (American, 1755–1828)

Date: 1782
Medium: oil on canvas
Size: 96¾ × 58 in (245.5 × 147.4 cm)
Museum: National Gallery of Art, Washington, accession 1950.18.1. 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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Pick the furniture and a print size to see it to scale on your wall.

Where Print size

Print: 24 × 40 in, the whole painting on 30 × 40 in paper
Center: 58 in (147 cm) from the floor

24 × 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 16 %	4¼ × 7 in	5 × 7 in ready-made	9 × 11 in custom	11 × 13 in custom	6280 dpi, crisp up close
12 × 16 in	trims 20 %	9½ × 16 in	12 × 16 in ready-made	16 × 20 in ready-made	18 × 22 in custom	2747 dpi, crisp up close
18 × 24 in	trims 20 %	14½ × 24 in	18 × 24 in ready-made	22 × 28 in ready-made	24 × 30 in ready-made	1831 dpi, crisp up close
20 × 30 in	trims 10 %	18 × 30 in	20 × 30 in ready-made	24 × 34 in custom	26 × 36 in custom	1465 dpi, crisp up close
24 × 36 in	trims 10 %	21½ × 36 in	24 × 36 in ready-made	28 × 40 in custom	30 × 42 in custom	1221 dpi, crisp up close
30 × 40 in	trims 20 %	24 × 40 in	30 × 40 in ready-made	34 × 44 in custom	36 × 46 in custom	1099 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) 335 × 560 px from Room Paintings
Web image 504 × 843 px from National Gallery of Art
Print file 1,196 × 2,000 px from National Gallery of Art
Original file 26,378 × 44,107 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.