The image depicts a man from the waist up, positioned in a three-quarter view as he looks to his left. He has a fair complexion, a reddish-brown close-cropped beard, and medium brown hair cut at ear length.

Portrait of a Man

Attributed to Barthel Bruyn the Elder (German, 1493–1555)

Date: c. 1530/1540
Medium: oil on panel
Size: 13½ × 9¼ in (34.6 × 23.8 cm)
Museum: National Gallery of Art, Washington, accession 1953.3.5. See the museum’s record
Credit: Gift of Adolph Caspar Miller

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

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Where Print size

Print: 24 × 36 in, filling the paper (trims 3.1 % of the picture)
Center: 58 in (147 cm) above the stair line

24 × 36 in portrait print (61 × 91 cm), centered 58 in above the stair line. Drawn to scale on a 12 × 8 ft wall.

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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
5 × 7 in	trims 3.7 %	4¾ × 7 in	5 × 7 in ready-made	9 × 11 in custom	11 × 13 in custom	1301 dpi, crisp up close
20 × 30 in	trims 3.1 %	20 × 29 in	20 × 30 in ready-made	24 × 34 in custom	26 × 36 in custom	314 dpi, crisp up close
24 × 36 in	trims 3.1 %	24 × 35 in	24 × 36 in ready-made	28 × 40 in custom	30 × 42 in custom	262 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) 386 × 560 px from Room Paintings
Web image 581 × 843 px from National Gallery of Art
Print file 1,378 × 2,000 px from National Gallery of Art
Original file 6,507 × 9,447 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.