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A pale-skinned girl wearing an arctic-blue ballet costume stands looking at us and almost fills this vertical painting. The scene is painted with blended strokes, giving it a soft, almost blurry look.

The Dancer

Pierre-Auguste Renoir (French, 1841–1919)

Date
1874
Medium
oil on canvas
Size
56 × 37¼ in (142.5 × 94.5 cm)
Museum
National Gallery of Art, Washington, accession 1942.9.72. See the museum’s record
Credit
Widener Collection

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

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Print
24 × 36 in, filling the paper (trims 0.5 % of the picture)
Center
58 in (147 cm) above the stair line
The Dancer: a 24 × 36 in print hung beside a staircase, drawn to scale on a 12 × 8 ft wall
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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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
20 × 30 in trims 0.5 % 20 × 30 in 20 × 30 in ready-made 24 × 34 in custom 26 × 36 in custom 810 dpi, crisp up close
24 × 36 in trims 0.5 % 24 × 36 in 24 × 36 in ready-made 28 × 40 in custom 30 × 42 in custom 675 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).

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.

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