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General Étienne-Maurice Gérard (1773–1852), Jacques-Louis David, 1816, oil on canvas

General Étienne-Maurice Gérard (1773–1852)

Jacques-Louis David (French, 1748–1825)

Date
1816
Medium
Oil on canvas
Size
77¾ × 53½ in (197.2 × 136.2 cm)
Museum
The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, accession 65.14.5. See the museum’s record
Credit
Purchase, Rogers and Fletcher Funds, and Mary Wetmore Shively Bequest, in memory of her husband, Henry L. Shively, M.D., 1965

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

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Print
24 × 36 in, filling the paper (trims 3.5 % of the picture)
Center
58 in (147 cm) from the floor
General Étienne-Maurice Gérard (1773–1852): a 24 × 36 in print hung on a plain wall, drawn to scale on a 12 × 8 ft wall
24 × 36 in portrait print (61 × 91 cm), centered 58 in from the floor. 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
5 × 7 in trims 3.3 % 4¾ × 7 in 5 × 7 in ready-made 9 × 11 in custom 11 × 13 in custom 552 dpi, crisp up close
20 × 30 in trims 3.5 % 20 × 29 in 20 × 30 in ready-made 24 × 34 in custom 26 × 36 in custom 133 dpi, soft up close
24 × 36 in trims 3.5 % 24 × 34¾ in 24 × 36 in ready-made 28 × 40 in custom 30 × 42 in custom 111 dpi, soft 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 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.

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