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Virgin and Child with the Young Saint John the Baptist and Angels, François Boucher, 1765, oil on canvas

Virgin and Child with the Young Saint John the Baptist and Angels

François Boucher (French, 1703–1770)

Date
1765
Medium
Oil on canvas
Size
16¼ × 13½ in (41 × 34.6 cm)
Museum
The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, accession 66.167. See the museum’s record
Credit
Gift of Adelaide Milton de Groot, in memory of the de Groot and Hawley families, 1966

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

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Print
16 × 20 in, filling the paper (trims 5.2 % of the picture)
Center
58 in (147 cm) above the stair line
Virgin and Child with the Young Saint John the Baptist and Angels: a 16 × 20 in print hung beside a staircase, drawn to scale on a 12 × 8 ft wall
16 × 20 in portrait print (41 × 51 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
8 × 10 in trims 5.2 % 8 × 9½ in 8 × 10 in ready-made 12 × 14 in custom 14 × 16 in custom 372 dpi, crisp up close
16 × 20 in trims 5.2 % 16 × 19 in 16 × 20 in ready-made 20 × 24 in ready-made 22 × 26 in custom 186 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).

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.

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