A woman with dark hair pulled up in a bun, wearing a long, muted lilac-purple silk dress, stands singing in front of woman playing a piano and a man playing a cello in a dimly lit room in this vertical painting.

Singing a Pathetic Song

Thomas Eakins (American, 1844–1916)

Date: 1881
Medium: oil on canvas
Size: 45 × 32¼ in (114.3 × 81.8 cm)
Museum: National Gallery of Art, Washington, accession 2014.79.19. See the museum’s record
Credit: Corcoran Collection (Museum Purchase, Gallery Fund, 1919)

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 4.5 % 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 0.2 %	5 × 7 in	5 × 7 in ready-made	9 × 11 in custom	11 × 13 in custom	2575 dpi, crisp up close
12 × 16 in	trims 4.5 %	11½ × 16 in	12 × 16 in ready-made	16 × 20 in ready-made	18 × 22 in custom	1073 dpi, crisp up close
18 × 24 in	trims 4.5 %	17¼ × 24 in	18 × 24 in ready-made	22 × 28 in ready-made	24 × 30 in ready-made	715 dpi, crisp up close
30 × 40 in	trims 4.5 %	28½ × 40 in	30 × 40 in ready-made	34 × 44 in custom	36 × 46 in custom	429 dpi, crisp up close
36 × 48 in	trims 4.5 %	34½ × 48 in	36 × 48 in ready-made	40 × 52 in custom	42 × 54 in custom	357 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) 399 × 560 px from Room Paintings
Web image 600 × 843 px from National Gallery of Art
Print file 1,424 × 2,000 px from National Gallery of Art
Original file 12,877 × 18,080 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.