This painting shows a woman sitting upright in a yellow-and-tan reclining chair, her body turned to the right, her face turned toward us. Her skin is pale, with shades of pale yellow and light pink, and shadows in a pale green shade.

Lady with a Dog

Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec (French, 1864–1901)

Date: 1891
Medium: oil on cardboard
Size: 29½ × 22½ in (75 × 57.2 cm)
Museum: National Gallery of Art, Washington, accession 1972.9.22. See the museum’s record
Credit: Gift of the W. Averell Harriman Foundation in memory of Marie N. Harriman

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

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Where Print size

Print: 18 × 24 in, filling the paper (trims 1.7 % of the picture)
Center: 58 in (147 cm) above the stair line

18 × 24 in portrait print (46 × 61 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	trims 4.6 %	7½ × 10 in	8 × 10 in ready-made	12 × 14 in custom	14 × 16 in custom	706 dpi, crisp up close
11 × 14 in	trims 2.9 %	10¾ × 14 in	11 × 14 in ready-made	15 × 18 in custom	17 × 20 in custom	513 dpi, crisp up close
12 × 16 in	trims 1.7 %	12 × 15¾ in	12 × 16 in ready-made	16 × 20 in ready-made	18 × 22 in custom	465 dpi, crisp up close
16 × 20 in	trims 4.6 %	15¼ × 20 in	16 × 20 in ready-made	20 × 24 in ready-made	22 × 26 in custom	353 dpi, crisp up close
18 × 24 in	trims 1.7 %	18 × 23½ in	18 × 24 in ready-made	22 × 28 in ready-made	24 × 30 in ready-made	310 dpi, crisp up close
30 × 40 in	trims 1.7 %	30 × 39¼ in	30 × 40 in ready-made	34 × 44 in custom	36 × 46 in custom	186 dpi, crisp from a step back
36 × 48 in	trims 1.7 %	36 × 47¼ in	36 × 48 in ready-made	40 × 52 in custom	42 × 54 in custom	155 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) 424 × 560 px from Room Paintings
Web image 639 × 843 px from National Gallery of Art
Print file 1,516 × 2,000 px from National Gallery of Art
Original file 5,650 × 7,453 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.