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Shown from the knees up, a pale-skinned woman wearing an off-the-shoulder, black gown stands in front of a maroon-red wall in this vertical portrait painting. Her body is angled to our left, but she turns her round face to us.

Madame Moitessier

Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres (French, 1780–1867)

Date
1851
Medium
oil on canvas
Size
57¾ × 39¼ in (147 × 100 cm)
Museum
National Gallery of Art, Washington, accession 1946.7.18. See the museum’s record
Credit
Samuel H. Kress Collection

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

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Print
24 × 36 in, filling the paper (trims 2 % of the picture)
Center
58 in (147 cm) above the stair line
Madame Moitessier: a 24 × 36 in print hung beside a staircase, drawn to scale on a 12 × 8 ft wall
24 × 36 in portrait print (61 × 91 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
5 × 7 in trims 4.8 % 4¾ × 7 in 5 × 7 in ready-made 9 × 11 in custom 11 × 13 in custom 2646 dpi, crisp up close
20 × 30 in trims 2 % 20 × 29½ in 20 × 30 in ready-made 24 × 34 in custom 26 × 36 in custom 651 dpi, crisp up close
24 × 36 in trims 2 % 24 × 35¼ in 24 × 36 in ready-made 28 × 40 in custom 30 × 42 in custom 542 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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