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A woman supports a pudgy baby who sits on a stone ledge in this vertical painting. They both have pale skin, rosy cheeks, blond hair, and subtle halos made of gold dots. The woman’s body faces us, and her head tips to our left.

Madonna and Child

Fra Filippo Lippi (Italian, 1406–1469)

Date
c. 1440
Medium
tempera on poplar panel
Size
31 × 20 in (79 × 51.1 cm)
Museum
National Gallery of Art, Washington, accession 1939.1.290. 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
24 × 36 in, filling the paper (trims 2.9 % of the picture)
Center
58 in (147 cm) above the stair line
Madonna and Child: a 24 × 36 in print hung beside a staircase, drawn to scale on a 12 × 8 ft wall
24 × 36 in portrait print (61 × 91 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
20 × 30 in trims 2.9 % 19½ × 30 in 20 × 30 in ready-made 24 × 34 in custom 26 × 36 in custom 545 dpi, crisp up close
24 × 36 in trims 2.9 % 23¼ × 36 in 24 × 36 in ready-made 28 × 40 in custom 30 × 42 in custom 454 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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