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Warm light pours onto white stone and brown brick buildings in a grassy landscape in this horizontal painting. Tiny people walk, stand, sit, and work across the turf, among the buildings, and over a bridge spanning a canal to our right.

The Porta Portello, Padua

Canaletto (Italian, 1697–1768)

Date
c. 1741/1742
Medium
oil on canvas
Size
24½ × 43 in (62 × 109 cm)
Museum
National Gallery of Art, Washington, accession 1961.9.53. See the museum’s record
Credit
Samuel H. Kress Collection

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

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Print
22¾ × 40 in, the whole painting on 30 × 40 in paper
Center
54¾ in (139 cm) from the floor
Above the sofa
8 in (20 cm) from the sofa to the frame
Ideal width
56 to 63 in over an 84 in sofa
Why this height
Centered at eye level, this frame would not sit 6 to 10 in above the sofa, so the 8 in gap sets the height.
The Porta Portello, Padua: a 22¾ × 40 in print hung above a sofa, drawn to scale on a 12 × 8 ft wall
22¾ × 40 in landscape print (58 × 102 cm), centered 54¾ in from the floor, 8 in above the sofa. Drawn to scale on a 12 × 8 ft wall.

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Print it

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
5 × 7 in trims 20.4 % 4 × 7 in 5 × 7 in ready-made 9 × 11 in custom 11 × 13 in custom 2771 dpi, crisp up close
12 × 16 in trims 24.2 % 9 × 16 in 12 × 16 in ready-made 16 × 20 in ready-made 18 × 22 in custom 1218 dpi, crisp up close
18 × 24 in trims 24.2 % 13¾ × 24 in 18 × 24 in ready-made 22 × 28 in ready-made 24 × 30 in ready-made 809 dpi, crisp up close
20 × 30 in trims 14.7 % 17 × 30 in 20 × 30 in ready-made 24 × 34 in custom 26 × 36 in custom 648 dpi, crisp up close
24 × 36 in trims 14.7 % 20½ × 36 in 24 × 36 in ready-made 28 × 40 in custom 30 × 42 in custom 540 dpi, crisp up close
30 × 40 in trims 24.2 % 22¾ × 40 in 30 × 40 in ready-made 34 × 44 in custom 36 × 46 in custom 486 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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