An armored man on horseback hands a piece of emerald-green cloth down to the nearly nude man standing next to him in this slightly stylized, vertical painting.

Saint Martin and the Beggar

El Greco (Greek, 1541–1614)

Date: 1597/1599
Medium: oil on canvas
Size: 76¼ × 40½ in (193.5 × 103 cm)
Museum: National Gallery of Art, Washington, accession 1942.9.25. 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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Hang it

Pick the furniture and a print size to see it to scale on your wall.

Where Print size

Print: 20 × 37½ in, the whole painting on 20 × 60 in paper
Center: 58 in (147 cm) from the floor

20 × 37½ in portrait print (51 × 96 cm), centered 58 in from the floor. 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 25.5 %	3¾ × 7 in	5 × 7 in ready-made	9 × 11 in custom	11 × 13 in custom	7057 dpi, crisp up close
12 × 16 in	trims 29.1 %	8½ × 16 in	12 × 16 in ready-made	16 × 20 in ready-made	18 × 22 in custom	3087 dpi, crisp up close
12 × 36 in	trims 37.3 %	12 × 22½ in	12 × 36 in custom	16 × 40 in custom	18 × 42 in custom	2185 dpi, crisp up close
20 × 30 in	trims 20.2 %	16 × 30 in	20 × 30 in ready-made	24 × 34 in custom	26 × 36 in custom	1644 dpi, crisp up close
24 × 36 in	trims 20.2 %	19¼ × 36 in	24 × 36 in ready-made	28 × 40 in custom	30 × 42 in custom	1370 dpi, crisp up close
20 × 60 in	trims 37.3 %	20 × 37½ in	20 × 60 in custom	24 × 64 in custom	26 × 66 in custom	1313 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).

Thumbnail (WebP) 298 × 560 px from Room Paintings
Web image 449 × 843 px from National Gallery of Art
Print file 1,065 × 2,000 px from National Gallery of Art
Original file 26,305 × 49,400 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.