Nine people are gathered in a landscape around the gaunt body of a young man being carried on a cloth in the lower half of this vertical painting. All the people have pale skin tinged with yellow, and all but one have shiny gold halos.

The Entombment of Christ

Attributed to Fra Angelico (Italian, 1395–1455)

Date: c. 1450
Medium: tempera on poplar panel
Size: 35 × 21½ in (88.9 × 54.9 cm)
Museum: National Gallery of Art, Washington, accession 1939.1.260. 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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Where Print size

Print: 24¾ × 40 in, the whole painting on 30 × 40 in paper
Center: 58 in (147 cm) above the stair line

24¾ × 40 in portrait print (63 × 102 cm), centered 58 in above the stair line. Drawn to scale on a 12 × 8 ft wall.

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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 13.5 %	4¼ × 7 in	5 × 7 in ready-made	9 × 11 in custom	11 × 13 in custom	859 dpi, crisp up close
12 × 16 in	trims 17.6 %	10 × 16 in	12 × 16 in ready-made	16 × 20 in ready-made	18 × 22 in custom	373 dpi, crisp up close
18 × 24 in	trims 17.6 %	14¾ × 24 in	18 × 24 in ready-made	22 × 28 in ready-made	24 × 30 in ready-made	249 dpi, crisp from a step back
20 × 30 in	trims 7.3 %	18½ × 30 in	20 × 30 in ready-made	24 × 34 in custom	26 × 36 in custom	199 dpi, crisp from a step back
24 × 36 in	trims 7.3 %	22¼ × 36 in	24 × 36 in ready-made	28 × 40 in custom	30 × 42 in custom	166 dpi, crisp from a step back
30 × 40 in	trims 17.6 %	24¾ × 40 in	30 × 40 in ready-made	34 × 44 in custom	36 × 46 in custom	149 dpi, soft 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) 343 × 560 px from Room Paintings
Web image 517 × 843 px from National Gallery of Art
Print file 1,228 × 2,000 px from National Gallery of Art
Original file 3,694 × 6,018 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.