A light-skinned man in red and woman in blue sit with an infant between them, angels beside and above them, a small town in the background.

The Nativity

Fra Bartolommeo (Baccio della Porta; Italian, 1472–1517)

Date: 1504–7
Medium: Oil on panel
Museum: Art Institute of Chicago, accession 2005.49. See the museum’s record
Credit: Ethel T. Scarborough Fund; John G. Searle Family Trust, L. L. and A. S. Coburn, Mr. and Mrs. Lester King, John and Josephine Louis, Samuel A. Marx, Alexander McKay, Chester D. Tripp, and Murray Vale endowment funds; purchased with funds provided by Marilynn Alsdorf, Anne Searle Bent, David and Celia Hilliard, Alexandra and John Nichols, Mrs. Harold T. Martin, Mrs. George B. Young in memory of her husband, and the Rhoades Foundation; gift of John Bross and members of the Old Masters Society in memory of Louise Smith Bross; through prior gift of the George F. Harding, Mr. and Mrs. W. W. Kimball, Mr. and Mrs. Martin A. Ryerson, and Charles H. and Mary F. S. Worcester collections

Public domain image courtesy of the Art Institute of Chicago (CC0).

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Where Print size

Print: 18 × 24 in, filling the paper (trims 4.4 % of the picture)
Center: 58 in (147 cm) above the stair line

18 × 24 in portrait print (46 × 61 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
5 × 7 in	trims 0.4 %	5 × 7 in	5 × 7 in ready-made	9 × 11 in custom	11 × 13 in custom	285 dpi, crisp from a step back
12 × 16 in	trims 4.4 %	11½ × 16 in	12 × 16 in ready-made	16 × 20 in ready-made	18 × 22 in custom	119 dpi, soft up close
18 × 24 in	trims 4.4 %	17¼ × 24 in	18 × 24 in ready-made	22 × 28 in ready-made	24 × 30 in ready-made	79 dpi, soft up close
30 × 40 in	trims 4.4 %	28¾ × 40 in	30 × 40 in ready-made	34 × 44 in custom	36 × 46 in custom	47 dpi, soft up close
36 × 48 in	trims 4.4 %	34½ × 48 in	36 × 48 in ready-made	40 × 52 in custom	42 × 54 in custom	39 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) 402 × 560 px from Room Paintings
Web image 843 × 1,175 px from Art Institute of Chicago
Print file 1,435 × 2,000 px from Art Institute of Chicago
The museum’s record of this painting Art Institute of Chicago

Public domain image courtesy of the Art Institute of Chicago (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.