A young boy with pale skin, wearing a burgundy-red suit and floppy hat, stands facing and looking at us with a gray terrier dog at his side in this vertical portrait painting.

Eddy Cassatt (Edward Buchanan Cassatt)

Mary Cassatt (American, 1844–1926)

Date: 1875
Medium: oil on canvas
Size: 58¼ × 43¼ in (148 × 109.9 cm)
Museum: National Gallery of Art, Washington, accession 2015.41.1. See the museum’s record
Credit: Gift from the Family of Col. Edward Buchanan Cassatt

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 0.9 % 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 3.9 %	5 × 6¾ in	5 × 7 in ready-made	9 × 11 in custom	11 × 13 in custom	3027 dpi, crisp up close
11 × 14 in	trims 5.4 %	10½ × 14 in	11 × 14 in ready-made	15 × 18 in custom	17 × 20 in custom	1420 dpi, crisp up close
12 × 16 in	trims 0.9 %	12 × 16 in	12 × 16 in ready-made	16 × 20 in ready-made	18 × 22 in custom	1302 dpi, crisp up close
18 × 24 in	trims 0.9 %	17¾ × 24 in	18 × 24 in ready-made	22 × 28 in ready-made	24 × 30 in ready-made	868 dpi, crisp up close
30 × 40 in	trims 0.9 %	29¾ × 40 in	30 × 40 in ready-made	34 × 44 in custom	36 × 46 in custom	520 dpi, crisp up close
36 × 48 in	trims 0.9 %	35¾ × 48 in	36 × 48 in ready-made	40 × 52 in custom	42 × 54 in custom	434 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) 413 × 560 px from Room Paintings
Web image 622 × 843 px from National Gallery of Art
Print file 1,475 × 2,000 px from National Gallery of Art
Original file 15,624 × 21,189 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.