Shown from about the waist up, a woman with smooth, pale skin sits in a chair facing our right in front of a canvas on an easel in this vertical portrait. She leans onto her right elbow, which rests on the seat back.

Self-Portrait

Judith Leyster (Dutch, 1609–1660)

Date: c. 1630
Medium: oil on canvas
Size: 29¼ × 25¾ in (74.6 × 65.1 cm)
Museum: National Gallery of Art, Washington, accession 1949.6.1. See the museum’s record
Credit: Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Robert Woods Bliss

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

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Where Print size

Print: 18 × 20½ in, the whole painting on 18 × 24 in paper
Center: 58 in (147 cm) above the stair line

18 × 20½ in portrait print (46 × 52 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 8.4 %	8 × 9¼ in	8 × 10 in ready-made	12 × 14 in custom	14 × 16 in custom	3578 dpi, crisp up close
11 × 14 in	trims 10 %	11 × 12½ in	11 × 14 in ready-made	15 × 18 in custom	17 × 20 in custom	2612 dpi, crisp up close
12 × 16 in	trims 14.1 %	12 × 13¾ in	12 × 16 in ready-made	16 × 20 in ready-made	18 × 22 in custom	2403 dpi, crisp up close
16 × 20 in	trims 8.4 %	16 × 18¼ in	16 × 20 in ready-made	20 × 24 in ready-made	22 × 26 in custom	1799 dpi, crisp up close
18 × 24 in	trims 14.1 %	18 × 20½ in	18 × 24 in ready-made	22 × 28 in ready-made	24 × 30 in ready-made	1598 dpi, crisp up close
30 × 40 in	trims 14.1 %	30 × 34½ in	30 × 40 in ready-made	34 × 44 in custom	36 × 46 in custom	957 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) 491 × 560 px from Room Paintings
Web image 739 × 843 px from National Gallery of Art
Print file 1,752 × 2,000 px from National Gallery of Art
Original file 28,841 × 32,922 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.