A thin, narrow-shouldered woman holding a black shawl close to her body walks toward us down an alleyway past a pair of men wearing all black in this horizontal painting.

Street in Venice

John Singer Sargent (American, 1856–1925)

Date: 1882
Medium: oil on wood
Size: 17¾ × 21¼ in (45.1 × 53.9 cm)
Museum: National Gallery of Art, Washington, accession 1962.4.1. See the museum’s record
Credit: Gift of the Avalon Foundation

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

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Where Print size

Print: 16 × 20 in, filling the paper (trims 4.4 % of the picture)
Center: 65¼ in (166 cm) from the floor
Above the headboard: 8 in (20 cm) from the headboard to the frame
Ideal width: 40 to 45 in over a 60 in headboard
Why this height: Centered at eye level, this frame would not sit 6 to 10 in above the headboard, so the 8 in gap sets the height.

16 × 20 in landscape print (41 × 51 cm), centered 65¼ in from the floor, 8 in above the headboard. 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 4.4 %	8 × 9½ in	8 × 10 in ready-made	12 × 14 in custom	14 × 16 in custom	2378 dpi, crisp up close
16 × 20 in	trims 4.4 %	16 × 19 in	16 × 20 in ready-made	20 × 24 in ready-made	22 × 26 in custom	1189 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) 560 × 470 px from Room Paintings
Web image 843 × 707 px from National Gallery of Art
Print file 2,000 × 1,676 px from National Gallery of Art
Original file 23,781 × 19,932 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.