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Virgin and Child with Saint Anne, Albrecht Dürer, probably 1519, oil on linden

Virgin and Child with Saint Anne

Albrecht Dürer (German, 1471–1528)

Date
probably 1519
Medium
Oil on linden
Size
23½ × 19½ in (60 × 49.8 cm)
Museum
The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, accession 14.40.633. See the museum’s record
Credit
Bequest of Benjamin Altman, 1913

Public domain image courtesy of The Metropolitan Museum of Art (Open Access, CC0).

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Print
16 × 20 in, filling the paper (trims 3.6 % of the picture)
Center
58 in (147 cm) above the stair line
Virgin and Child with Saint Anne: a 16 × 20 in print hung beside a staircase, drawn to scale on a 12 × 8 ft wall
16 × 20 in portrait print (41 × 51 cm), centered 58 in above the stair line. Drawn to scale on a 12 × 8 ft wall.

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Paper Filling the paper Printed whole Frame Frame with a 2 in mat Frame with a 3 in mat Sharpness
8 × 10 in trims 3.6 % 8 × 9½ in 8 × 10 in ready-made 12 × 14 in custom 14 × 16 in custom 386 dpi, crisp up close
11 × 14 in trims 5.3 % 11 × 13¼ in 11 × 14 in ready-made 15 × 18 in custom 17 × 20 in custom 275 dpi, crisp from a step back
16 × 20 in trims 3.6 % 16 × 19¼ in 16 × 20 in ready-made 20 × 24 in ready-made 22 × 26 in custom 193 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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Public domain image courtesy of The Metropolitan Museum 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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