A white dog spotted with caramel-brown and with long, floppy ears sits in a garden setting near a green park bench in this loosely painted vertical portrait.

The Artist's Dog Flèche

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

Date: c. 1881
Medium: oil on wood
Size: 9¼ × 5½ in (23.7 × 14.2 cm)
Museum: National Gallery of Art, Washington, accession 1970.17.84. See the museum’s record
Credit: Ailsa Mellon Bruce Collection

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

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Where Print size

Print: 24 × 40 in, the whole painting on 30 × 40 in paper
Center: 58 in (147 cm) above the stair line

24 × 40 in portrait print (61 × 102 cm), centered 58 in above the stair line. Drawn to scale on a 12 × 8 ft wall.

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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 16.1 %	4¼ × 7 in	5 × 7 in ready-made	9 × 11 in custom	11 × 13 in custom	1507 dpi, crisp up close
12 × 16 in	trims 20.1 %	9½ × 16 in	12 × 16 in ready-made	16 × 20 in ready-made	18 × 22 in custom	659 dpi, crisp up close
18 × 24 in	trims 20.1 %	14½ × 24 in	18 × 24 in ready-made	22 × 28 in ready-made	24 × 30 in ready-made	439 dpi, crisp up close
20 × 30 in	trims 10.2 %	18 × 30 in	20 × 30 in ready-made	24 × 34 in custom	26 × 36 in custom	351 dpi, crisp up close
24 × 36 in	trims 10.2 %	21½ × 36 in	24 × 36 in ready-made	28 × 40 in custom	30 × 42 in custom	293 dpi, crisp from a step back
30 × 40 in	trims 20.1 %	24 × 40 in	30 × 40 in ready-made	34 × 44 in custom	36 × 46 in custom	263 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) 333 × 560 px from Room Paintings
Web image 501 × 843 px from National Gallery of Art
Print file 1,188 × 2,000 px from National Gallery of Art
Original file 6,333 × 10,661 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.