Egyptian Woman with Earrings

John Singer Sargent (American, 1856–1925)

Date: 1890–91
Medium: Oil on canvas
Size: 28 × 24½ in (71.1 × 62.2 cm)
Museum: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, accession 50.130.22. See the museum’s record
Credit: Gift of Mrs. Francis Ormond, 1950

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

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Where Print size

Print: 16 × 18¼ in, the whole painting on 16 × 20 in paper
Center: 58 in (147 cm) above the stair line

16 × 18¼ in portrait print (41 × 46 cm), centered 58 in above the stair line. 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
8 × 10 in	trims 8.6 %	8 × 9 in	8 × 10 in ready-made	12 × 14 in custom	14 × 16 in custom	377 dpi, crisp up close
12 × 12 in	trims 12.5 %	10½ × 12 in	12 × 12 in ready-made	16 × 16 in ready-made	18 × 18 in custom	287 dpi, crisp from a step back
11 × 14 in	trims 10.2 %	11 × 12½ in	11 × 14 in ready-made	15 × 18 in custom	17 × 20 in custom	274 dpi, crisp from a step back
12 × 16 in	trims 14.3 %	12 × 13¾ in	12 × 16 in ready-made	16 × 20 in ready-made	18 × 22 in custom	251 dpi, crisp from a step back
16 × 16 in	trims 12.5 %	14 × 16 in	16 × 16 in ready-made	20 × 20 in ready-made	22 × 22 in custom	215 dpi, crisp from a step back
16 × 20 in	trims 8.6 %	16 × 18¼ in	16 × 20 in ready-made	20 × 24 in ready-made	22 × 26 in custom	188 dpi, crisp from a step back

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) 454 × 560 px from Room Paintings
Web image 507 × 625 px from The Met
Print and original file 3,018 × 3,718 px from The Met
The museum’s record of this painting The Met

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.