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Shown from the waist up, a woman with pale, peachy skin reads a book with one elbow propped on a grassy bank in this horizontal painting.

A Young Woman Reading

Gustave Courbet (French, 1819–1877)

Date
c. 1866/1868
Medium
oil on canvas
Size
23½ × 28¾ in (60 × 72.9 cm)
Museum
National Gallery of Art, Washington, accession 1963.10.114. See the museum’s record
Credit
Chester Dale Collection

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

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Print
16 × 20 in, filling the paper (trims 2.8 % of the picture)
Center
65¼ in (166 cm) from the floor
Above the headboard
8 in (20 cm) from the headboard to the frame
Ideal width
40 to 45 in over a 60 in headboard
Why this height
Centered at eye level, this frame would not sit 6 to 10 in above the headboard, so the 8 in gap sets the height.
A Young Woman Reading: a 16 × 20 in print hung above a headboard, drawn to scale on a 12 × 8 ft wall
16 × 20 in landscape print (41 × 51 cm), centered 65¼ in from the floor, 8 in above the headboard. 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 2.8 % 8 × 9¾ in 8 × 10 in ready-made 12 × 14 in custom 14 × 16 in custom 724 dpi, crisp up close
11 × 14 in trims 4.5 % 11 × 13½ in 11 × 14 in ready-made 15 × 18 in custom 17 × 20 in custom 517 dpi, crisp up close
16 × 20 in trims 2.8 % 16 × 19½ in 16 × 20 in ready-made 20 × 24 in ready-made 22 × 26 in custom 362 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).

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.

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