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A woman stands with her back to us wearing a silver and black gown as she turns to look to our right in profile in this vertical portrait painting.

Mother of Pearl and Silver: The Andalusian

James McNeill Whistler (American, 1834–1903)

Date
1888(?)-1900
Medium
oil on canvas
Size
75½ × 35¼ in (191.5 × 89.8 cm)
Museum
National Gallery of Art, Washington, accession 1943.6.1. See the museum’s record
Credit
Harris Whittemore Collection

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

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Hang it

Pick the furniture and a print size to see it to scale on your wall.

Print
20 × 42½ in, the whole painting on 20 × 60 in paper
Center
58 in (147 cm) from the floor
Mother of Pearl and Silver: The Andalusian: a 20 × 42½ in print hung on a plain wall, drawn to scale on a 12 × 8 ft wall
20 × 42½ in panoramic print (51 × 108 cm), centered 58 in from the floor. Drawn to scale on a 12 × 8 ft wall.

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Print it

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 34.3 % 3¼ × 7 in 5 × 7 in ready-made 9 × 11 in custom 11 × 13 in custom 4004 dpi, crisp up close
12 × 16 in trims 37.5 % 7½ × 16 in 12 × 16 in ready-made 16 × 20 in ready-made 18 × 22 in custom 1762 dpi, crisp up close
12 × 36 in trims 28.9 % 12 × 25½ in 12 × 36 in custom 16 × 40 in custom 18 × 42 in custom 1101 dpi, crisp up close
20 × 30 in trims 29.7 % 14 × 30 in 20 × 30 in ready-made 24 × 34 in custom 26 × 36 in custom 937 dpi, crisp up close
24 × 36 in trims 29.7 % 17 × 36 in 24 × 36 in ready-made 28 × 40 in custom 30 × 42 in custom 781 dpi, crisp up close
20 × 60 in trims 28.9 % 20 × 42½ in 20 × 60 in custom 24 × 64 in custom 26 × 66 in custom 660 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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