Elizabeth Winthrop Chanler (Mrs. John Jay Chapman)

John Singer Sargent (American, 1856–1925)

Date: 1893
Medium: oil on canvas
Size: 49¼ × 40½ in (125.4 × 102.9 cm)
Museum: Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington, accession 1980.71. See the museum’s record
Credit: Smithsonian American Art Museum, Gift of Chanler A. Chapman

Public domain image courtesy of the Smithsonian American Art Museum (Smithsonian Open Access, CC0).

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Where Print size

Print: 16 × 20 in, filling the paper (trims 2.6 % of the picture)
Center: 58 in (147 cm) above the stair line

16 × 20 in portrait print (41 × 51 cm), centered 58 in above the stair line. Drawn to scale on a 12 × 8 ft wall.

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Print it

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
8 × 10 in	trims 2.6 %	8 × 9¾ in	8 × 10 in ready-made	12 × 14 in custom	14 × 16 in custom	300 dpi, crisp up close
11 × 14 in	trims 4.3 %	11 × 13½ in	11 × 14 in ready-made	15 × 18 in custom	17 × 20 in custom	214 dpi, crisp from a step back
16 × 20 in	trims 2.6 %	16 × 19½ in	16 × 20 in ready-made	20 × 24 in ready-made	22 × 26 in custom	150 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) 458 × 560 px from Room Paintings
Web image 690 × 843 px from Smithsonian American Art Museum
Print file 1,637 × 2,000 px from Smithsonian American Art Museum
Original file 2,456 × 3,000 px from Smithsonian American Art Museum
The museum’s record of this painting Smithsonian American Art Museum

Public domain image courtesy of the Smithsonian American Art Museum (Smithsonian 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.