Light pours over a woman floating in front of a bank of clouds, surrounded by ten mostly nude, toddler-like winged putti in this vertical painting. The woman, Mary, and the putti all have pale, peachy skin.

The Virgin as Intercessor

Anthony van Dyck (Flemish, 1599–1641)

Date: 1628/1629
Medium: oil on canvas
Size: 46¾ × 40¼ in (118.8 × 102.3 cm)
Museum: National Gallery of Art, Washington, accession 1942.9.88. See the museum’s record
Credit: Widener Collection

Public domain image courtesy of the National Gallery of Art (Open Access, CC0).

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Where Print size

Print: 18 × 21 in, the whole painting on 18 × 24 in paper
Center: 58 in (147 cm) above the stair line

18 × 21 in portrait print (46 × 53 cm), centered 58 in above the stair line. Drawn to scale on a 12 × 8 ft wall.

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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 7.1 %	8 × 9¼ in	8 × 10 in ready-made	12 × 14 in custom	14 × 16 in custom	781 dpi, crisp up close
11 × 14 in	trims 8.7 %	11 × 12¾ in	11 × 14 in ready-made	15 × 18 in custom	17 × 20 in custom	568 dpi, crisp up close
12 × 16 in	trims 12.9 %	12 × 14 in	12 × 16 in ready-made	16 × 20 in ready-made	18 × 22 in custom	520 dpi, crisp up close
16 × 20 in	trims 7.1 %	16 × 18½ in	16 × 20 in ready-made	20 × 24 in ready-made	22 × 26 in custom	390 dpi, crisp up close
18 × 24 in	trims 12.9 %	18 × 21 in	18 × 24 in ready-made	22 × 28 in ready-made	24 × 30 in ready-made	347 dpi, crisp up close
30 × 40 in	trims 12.9 %	30 × 34¾ in	30 × 40 in ready-made	34 × 44 in custom	36 × 46 in custom	208 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) 477 × 560 px from Room Paintings
Web image 718 × 843 px from National Gallery of Art
Print file 1,704 × 2,000 px from National Gallery of Art
Original file 6,248 × 7,335 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.