A small brown dog and a pale-skinned little girl wearing a white dress sit in matching celestial-blue armchairs in this horizontal painting. To our right, the girl sits with her legs angled to our left.

Little Girl in a Blue Armchair

Mary Cassatt (American, 1844–1926)

Date: 1878
Medium: oil on canvas
Size: 35¼ × 51 in (89.5 × 129.8 cm)
Museum: National Gallery of Art, Washington, accession 1983.1.18. 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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Hang it

Pick the furniture and a print size to see it to scale on your wall.

Where Print size

Print: 24 × 36 in, filling the paper (trims 3.3 % of the picture)
Center: 55¼ in (140 cm) from the floor
Above the sofa: 8 in (20 cm) from the sofa to the frame
Ideal width: 56 to 63 in over an 84 in sofa
Why this height: Centered at eye level, this frame would not sit 6 to 10 in above the sofa, so the 8 in gap sets the height.

24 × 36 in landscape print (61 × 91 cm), centered 55¼ in from the floor, 8 in above the sofa. 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
5 × 7 in	trims 3.4 %	4¾ × 7 in	5 × 7 in ready-made	9 × 11 in custom	11 × 13 in custom	2975 dpi, crisp up close
20 × 30 in	trims 3.3 %	20 × 29 in	20 × 30 in ready-made	24 × 34 in custom	26 × 36 in custom	740 dpi, crisp up close
24 × 36 in	trims 3.3 %	24 × 34¾ in	24 × 36 in ready-made	28 × 40 in custom	30 × 42 in custom	616 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 × 375 px from Room Paintings
Web image 843 × 565 px from National Gallery of Art
Print file 2,000 × 1,340 px from National Gallery of Art
Original file 22,206 × 14,876 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.