This painting shows a seated woman, her body turned slightly to the left and her head turned towards us. She is holding a small white mask in her right hand, balancing it on one of her knees.

Lady with a Mask

Thomas Wilmer Dewing (American, 1851–1938)

Date: 1911
Medium: oil on canvas
Size: 22¼ × 24¼ in (56.2 × 61.3 cm)
Museum: National Gallery of Art, Washington, accession 2014.79.16. See the museum’s record
Credit: Corcoran Collection (Museum Purchase, 1911)

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: 22 × 24 in, the whole painting on 24 × 24 in paper
Center: 66¼ in (168 cm) from the floor
Above the mantel: 6 in (15 cm) from the mantel to the frame
Ideal width: 44 to 50 in over a 66 in mantel
Why this height: Centered at eye level, this frame would not sit 4 to 8 in above the mantel, so the 6 in gap sets the height.

22 × 24 in landscape print (56 × 61 cm), centered 66¼ in from the floor, 6 in above the mantel. Drawn to scale on a 12 × 8 ft wall.

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Print it

No standard paper matches this painting’s proportions closely, so print it whole with a white border, or trim the edges to fill the paper.

Paper	Filling the paper	Printed whole	Frame	Frame with a 2 in mat	Frame with a 3 in mat	Sharpness
8 × 10 in	trims 12.7 %	8 × 8¾ in	8 × 10 in ready-made	12 × 14 in custom	14 × 16 in custom	1479 dpi, crisp up close
12 × 12 in	trims 8.3 %	11 × 12 in	12 × 12 in ready-made	16 × 16 in ready-made	18 × 18 in custom	1074 dpi, crisp up close
16 × 16 in	trims 8.3 %	14¾ × 16 in	16 × 16 in ready-made	20 × 20 in ready-made	22 × 22 in custom	804 dpi, crisp up close
16 × 20 in	trims 12.7 %	16 × 17½ in	16 × 20 in ready-made	20 × 24 in ready-made	22 × 26 in custom	736 dpi, crisp up close
20 × 20 in	trims 8.3 %	18¼ × 20 in	20 × 20 in ready-made	24 × 24 in ready-made	26 × 26 in custom	644 dpi, crisp up close
24 × 24 in	trims 8.3 %	22 × 24 in	24 × 24 in ready-made	28 × 28 in custom	30 × 30 in custom	537 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 × 514 px from Room Paintings
Web image 843 × 774 px from National Gallery of Art
Print file 2,000 × 1,836 px from National Gallery of Art
Original file 12,889 × 11,832 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.