Shown from the waist up, a young woman sits on the other side of the edge of a table, leaning toward us on one elbow in this vertical painting. She looks at us with dark brown eyes under faint, arched brows.

Girl with a Flute

Studio of Johannes Vermeer (Dutch, 1632–1675)

Date: c. 1669/1675
Medium: oil on panel
Size: 7¾ × 7 in (20 × 17.8 cm)
Museum: National Gallery of Art, Washington, accession 1942.9.98. See the museum’s record
Credit: Widener Collection

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

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Where Print size

Print: 17¾ × 20 in, the whole painting on 20 × 20 in paper
Center: 58 in (147 cm) above the stair line

17¾ × 20 in portrait print (45 × 51 cm), centered 58 in above the stair line. 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
8 × 10 in	trims 10.1 %	8 × 9 in	8 × 10 in ready-made	12 × 14 in custom	14 × 16 in custom	1443 dpi, crisp up close
12 × 12 in	trims 11 %	10¾ × 12 in	12 × 12 in ready-made	16 × 16 in ready-made	18 × 18 in custom	1082 dpi, crisp up close
11 × 14 in	trims 11.7 %	11 × 12½ in	11 × 14 in ready-made	15 × 18 in custom	17 × 20 in custom	1047 dpi, crisp up close
16 × 16 in	trims 11 %	14¼ × 16 in	16 × 16 in ready-made	20 × 20 in ready-made	22 × 22 in custom	811 dpi, crisp up close
16 × 20 in	trims 10.1 %	16 × 18 in	16 × 20 in ready-made	20 × 24 in ready-made	22 × 26 in custom	721 dpi, crisp up close
20 × 20 in	trims 11 %	17¾ × 20 in	20 × 20 in ready-made	24 × 24 in ready-made	26 × 26 in custom	649 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).

Thumbnail (WebP) 501 × 560 px from Room Paintings
Web image 754 × 843 px from National Gallery of Art
Print file 1,790 × 2,000 px from National Gallery of Art
Original file 11,624 × 12,988 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.