Portrait of an Old Man

El Greco (Greek, 1541–1614)

Date: ca. 1595–1600
Medium: Oil on canvas
Size: 20¾ × 18½ in (52.7 × 46.7 cm)
Museum: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, accession 24.197.1. See the museum’s record
Credit: Purchase, Joseph Pulitzer Bequest, 1924

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

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Where Print size

Print: 17¾ × 20 in, the whole painting on 20 × 20 in paper
Center: 58 in (147 cm) above the stair line

17¾ × 20 in portrait print (45 × 51 cm), centered 58 in above the stair line. 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
8 × 10 in	trims 9.7 %	8 × 9 in	8 × 10 in ready-made	12 × 14 in custom	14 × 16 in custom	443 dpi, crisp up close
12 × 12 in	trims 11.4 %	10½ × 12 in	12 × 12 in ready-made	16 × 16 in ready-made	18 × 18 in custom	333 dpi, crisp up close
11 × 14 in	trims 11.3 %	11 × 12½ in	11 × 14 in ready-made	15 × 18 in custom	17 × 20 in custom	322 dpi, crisp up close
16 × 16 in	trims 11.4 %	14¼ × 16 in	16 × 16 in ready-made	20 × 20 in ready-made	22 × 22 in custom	249 dpi, crisp from a step back
16 × 20 in	trims 9.7 %	16 × 18 in	16 × 20 in ready-made	20 × 24 in ready-made	22 × 26 in custom	220 dpi, crisp from a step back
20 × 20 in	trims 11.4 %	17¾ × 20 in	20 × 20 in ready-made	24 × 24 in ready-made	26 × 26 in custom	200 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) 497 × 560 px from Room Paintings
Web image 554 × 624 px from The Met
Print and original file 3,549 × 4,000 px from The Met
The museum’s record of this painting The Met

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.