A bearded man with a coppery-peach completion, wearing a dark, navy-blue brimmed cap, vest, jacket, and pants sits on a wooden bench or chair against a green background in this vertical portrait.

The Gardener Vallier

Paul Cézanne (French, 1839–1906)

Date: 1906
Medium: oil on canvas
Size: 42¼ × 29¼ in (107.4 × 74.5 cm)
Museum: National Gallery of Art, Washington, accession 1959.2.1. See the museum’s record
Credit: Gift of Eugene and Agnes E. Meyer

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

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Hang it

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Where Print size

Print: 24 × 36 in, filling the paper (trims 3.9 % of the picture)
Center: 58 in (147 cm) above the stair line

24 × 36 in portrait print (61 × 91 cm), centered 58 in above the stair line. 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 2.8 %	5 × 7 in	5 × 7 in ready-made	9 × 11 in custom	11 × 13 in custom	2300 dpi, crisp up close
20 × 30 in	trims 3.9 %	20 × 28¾ in	20 × 30 in ready-made	24 × 34 in custom	26 × 36 in custom	561 dpi, crisp up close
24 × 36 in	trims 3.9 %	24 × 34½ in	24 × 36 in ready-made	28 × 40 in custom	30 × 42 in custom	467 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) 383 × 560 px from Room Paintings
Web image 576 × 843 px from National Gallery of Art
Print file 1,366 × 2,000 px from National Gallery of Art
Original file 11,503 × 16,843 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.