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Sun pours across a landscape with trees and plants growing around and on an arched stone ruin, a bridge and river, and, in the distance, buildings along a flat-topped hill carpeted with grass in this vertical painting.

English Landscape Capriccio with a Palace

Canaletto (Italian, 1697–1768)

Date
c. 1754
Medium
oil on canvas
Size
52¾ × 42¾ in (134 × 108.8 cm)
Museum
National Gallery of Art, Washington, accession 1964.2.2. See the museum’s record
Credit
Paul Mellon Collection

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

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Print
16 × 20 in, filling the paper (trims 1.5 % of the picture)
Center
58 in (147 cm) above the stair line
English Landscape Capriccio with a Palace: 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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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 1.5 % 8 × 10 in 8 × 10 in ready-made 12 × 14 in custom 14 × 16 in custom 693 dpi, crisp up close
11 × 14 in trims 3.2 % 11 × 13½ in 11 × 14 in ready-made 15 × 18 in custom 17 × 20 in custom 495 dpi, crisp up close
16 × 20 in trims 1.5 % 16 × 19¾ in 16 × 20 in ready-made 20 × 24 in ready-made 22 × 26 in custom 346 dpi, crisp up close

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).

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.

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