The Purple Dress

William Glackens (American, 1870–1938)

Date: 1908-1910
Medium: oil on canvas
Size: 25½ × 30¼ in (64.8 × 76.8 cm)
Museum: Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington, accession 2014.70. See the museum’s record
Credit: Smithsonian American Art Museum, Gift of Ann and Tom Cousins

Public domain image courtesy of the Smithsonian American Art Museum (Smithsonian 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: 16 × 20 in, filling the paper (trims 5.2 % of the picture)
Center: 65¼ in (166 cm) from the floor
Above the headboard: 8 in (20 cm) from the headboard to the frame
Ideal width: 40 to 45 in over a 60 in headboard
Why this height: Centered at eye level, this frame would not sit 6 to 10 in above the headboard, so the 8 in gap sets the height.

16 × 20 in landscape print (41 × 51 cm), centered 65¼ in from the floor, 8 in above the headboard. 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
8 × 10 in	trims 5.2 %	8 × 9½ in	8 × 10 in ready-made	12 × 14 in custom	14 × 16 in custom	300 dpi, crisp up close
16 × 20 in	trims 5.2 %	16 × 19 in	16 × 20 in ready-made	20 × 24 in ready-made	22 × 26 in custom	150 dpi, crisp from a step back

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 × 468 px from Room Paintings
Web image 843 × 705 px from Smithsonian American Art Museum
Print file 2,000 × 1,673 px from Smithsonian American Art Museum
Original file 3,000 × 2,509 px from Smithsonian American Art Museum
The museum’s record of this painting Smithsonian American Art Museum

Public domain image courtesy of the Smithsonian American Art Museum (Smithsonian 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.