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A tall, thin, pale-skinned young man stands in a dimly lit room, nearly filling the height of this portrait painting. He faces us with his body turned slightly to our left, and he wears a charcoal-gray suit and black shoes.

George W. Vanderbilt

James McNeill Whistler (American, 1834–1903)

Date
1897/1903
Medium
oil on canvas
Size
82¼ × 35¾ in (208.6 × 91.1 cm)
Museum
National Gallery of Art, Washington, accession 1959.3.3. See the museum’s record
Credit
Gift of Edith Stuyvesant Gerry

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.

Print
20 × 45¾ in, the whole painting on 20 × 60 in paper
Center
58 in (147 cm) from the floor
George W. Vanderbilt: a 20 × 45¾ in print hung on a plain wall, drawn to scale on a 12 × 8 ft wall
20 × 45¾ in panoramic print (51 × 116 cm), centered 58 in from the floor. 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 38.8 % 3 × 7 in 5 × 7 in ready-made 9 × 11 in custom 11 × 13 in custom 2843 dpi, crisp up close
12 × 16 in trims 41.7 % 7 × 16 in 12 × 16 in ready-made 16 × 20 in ready-made 18 × 22 in custom 1259 dpi, crisp up close
12 × 36 in trims 23.7 % 12 × 27½ in 12 × 36 in custom 16 × 40 in custom 18 × 42 in custom 734 dpi, crisp up close
20 × 30 in trims 34.4 % 13 × 30 in 20 × 30 in ready-made 24 × 34 in custom 26 × 36 in custom 672 dpi, crisp up close
24 × 36 in trims 34.4 % 15¾ × 36 in 24 × 36 in ready-made 28 × 40 in custom 30 × 42 in custom 561 dpi, crisp up close
20 × 60 in trims 23.7 % 20 × 45¾ in 20 × 60 in custom 24 × 64 in custom 26 × 66 in custom 440 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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