Shown from the waist up, a young girl wearing a slate-gray dress and straw hat stands with her hands clasped in front of her in this vertical portrait painting. The girl has light, peachy skin, and her cheeks are lightly flushed.

Child in a Straw Hat

Mary Cassatt (American, 1844–1926)

Date: c. 1886
Medium: oil on canvas
Size: 25¾ × 19¼ in (65.3 × 49.2 cm)
Museum: National Gallery of Art, Washington, accession 1983.1.17. See the museum’s record
Credit: Collection of Mr. and Mrs. Paul Mellon

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

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Where Print size

Print: 18 × 24 in, filling the paper (trims 0.4 % of the picture)
Center: 58 in (147 cm) above the stair line

18 × 24 in portrait print (46 × 61 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
5 × 7 in	trims 5.1 %	5 × 6½ in	5 × 7 in ready-made	9 × 11 in custom	11 × 13 in custom	3043 dpi, crisp up close
11 × 14 in	trims 4.2 %	10½ × 14 in	11 × 14 in ready-made	15 × 18 in custom	17 × 20 in custom	1462 dpi, crisp up close
12 × 16 in	trims 0.4 %	12 × 16 in	12 × 16 in ready-made	16 × 20 in ready-made	18 × 22 in custom	1331 dpi, crisp up close
18 × 24 in	trims 0.4 %	18 × 24 in	18 × 24 in ready-made	22 × 28 in ready-made	24 × 30 in ready-made	887 dpi, crisp up close
30 × 40 in	trims 0.4 %	30 × 39¾ in	30 × 40 in ready-made	34 × 44 in custom	36 × 46 in custom	532 dpi, crisp up close
36 × 48 in	trims 0.4 %	36 × 47¾ in	36 × 48 in ready-made	40 × 52 in custom	42 × 54 in custom	443 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) 422 × 560 px from Room Paintings
Web image 636 × 843 px from National Gallery of Art
Print file 1,510 × 2,000 px from National Gallery of Art
Original file 16,084 × 21,307 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.