This is the record for the sheet you bought: which original it comes from, how it was digitised, what we did to the file, and what we are allowed to sell. Nothing here is marketing. It is the paperwork.
The sheet you have
- Work
- Claude Monet (French, 1840–1926), Woman with a Parasol — Madame Monet and Her Son, 1875. Signed lower right: Claude Monet 75
- Object
- Oil on canvas, 100 × 81 cm. Wildenstein 381
- Held by
- National Gallery of Art, Washington, Collection of Mr. and Mrs. Paul Mellon
- Accession
- 1983.1.29 (NGA object 61379)
- File
- NGA IIIF, 12666 × 15698 px native
- Crop
- None — the whole file is printed
- Printed at
- 957 dpi at 40 × 50 cm · 638 dpi at 60 × 80 cm
Which painting, and why this one
Camille Monet and their son Jean, on a rise at Argenteuil, painted from below so the sky does the work. Monet showed it at the second Impressionist exhibition in Paris in 1876 as Promenade. It is the first of three; the two later versions, painted in 1886 after Camille's death and now in the Musée d'Orsay, are of another model and face away. This is the one with her face in it.
Provenance is unusually complete: sold by the artist in 1876 to Dr Georges de Bellio in Paris; by inheritance to the Donop de Monchy family until at least 1897; Georges Menier by 1924; the Menier sale at the Palais Galliera on 15 June 1965, lot 121; bought there by Hector Brame for Paul Mellon; given to the National Gallery in 1983.
What we measured
We profiled five columns and rows at each edge of a 2400 px rendition: means 135–138 left, 144–151 right, 94–99 top, 113–127 bottom, spreads 32 to 202. Painted surface everywhere, no studio ground, no frame. Nothing trimmed. Ratio 15698 / 12666 = 1.2394 against the catalogued 100 / 81 = 1.2346 — 0.39 %.
A trap worth recording. The National Gallery's info.json reports 12666 × 15698, but /full/max/ and every plain width request return at most 3305 × 4096: the server caps single-request delivery at 4096 px on the long side. Print from that and you would be working at a quarter of the resolution you thought you had. We fetched the file as IIIF regions instead — three by four tiles for the small sheet, four by five for the large — with tile boundaries computed from the destination pixels so the seams land on whole pixels. Seamless, and at the real resolution.
The canvas ratio is 0.8068. Our 40 × 50 sheet is 0.80 — the closest fit anywhere in our size ladder, which is why that sheet has an almost even border. The 60 × 80 sheet is 0.75, so there the width binds and the vertical margins run wider.
What we are allowed to sell
The original. Monet died in 1926; the European term expired in 1997. Exhibited publicly in Paris in 1876, so public domain in the US with fifty years to spare.
The digitisation. The National Gallery of Art states that this object's media is free and in the public domain under its Open Access policy — commercial use permitted, no licence, no fee. File taken from the museum's own IIIF endpoint (api.nga.gov/iiif), not from an aggregator. This was our first sheet from the National Gallery.
Our file. The tonal work and the border are ours. We sell you a print of it; we do not sell you the rights to it.
Rights checked 1 September 2026.
Framing this sheet
- 40 × 50 cm
- Image 33.60 × 41.64 cm, 0.41× original. Margins 3.19 cm sides / 3.89 cm top / 4.47 cm bottom
- 60 × 80 cm
- Image 50.40 × 62.47 cm, 0.62× original. Margins 4.80 cm sides / 8.15 cm top / 9.38 cm bottom
- Orientation
- Both sheets are portrait
- Frame
- A standard 40 × 50 cm or 60 × 80 cm frame takes the sheet as printed, no trimming. Nearest imperial: 16 × 20 in and 24 × 32 in
- Passepartout
- Optional. The printed border already gives the sheet air. If you want a mount as well, go one frame size up rather than cutting into the border
- Glazing
- Most of this picture is sky, and sky under plain glass becomes a mirror of your room — anti-reflective glazing is the single change that helps most here
Measure your frame before you order. Frame sizes vary between makers, and some frames have a rebate that swallows several millimetres on each side. We give the exact printed dimensions above so you can check; we cannot take responsibility for a frame that turns out not to fit.
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