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A young woman with pale, peachy skin, wearing a long, silvery blue dress with a rose-pink train looks out at us in this vertical portrait painting.

Miss Mathilde Townsend

John Singer Sargent (American, 1856–1925)

Date
1907
Medium
oil on canvas
Size
60 × 40 in (152.7 × 101.6 cm)
Museum
National Gallery of Art, Washington, accession 1952.3.1. See the museum’s record
Credit
Gift of the sitter, Mrs. Sumner Welles

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 0.2 % of the picture)
Center
58 in (147 cm) above the stair line
Miss Mathilde Townsend: 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
20 × 30 in trims 0.2 % 20 × 30 in 20 × 30 in ready-made 24 × 34 in custom 26 × 36 in custom 737 dpi, crisp up close
24 × 36 in trims 0.2 % 24 × 36 in 24 × 36 in ready-made 28 × 40 in custom 30 × 42 in custom 614 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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