Christ Taking Leave of His Mother

Gerard David (Netherlandish, 1455–1523)

Date: ca. 1500
Medium: Oil on wood
Size: 6¼ × 4¾ in (15.6 × 12.1 cm)
Museum: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, accession 14.40.636. See the museum’s record
Credit: Bequest of Benjamin Altman, 1913

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

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Where Print size

Print: 18 × 24 in, filling the paper (trims 3.4 % 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
8 × 10 in	trims 3 %	7¾ × 10 in	8 × 10 in ready-made	12 × 14 in custom	14 × 16 in custom	400 dpi, crisp up close
11 × 14 in	trims 1.2 %	11 × 14 in	11 × 14 in ready-made	15 × 18 in custom	17 × 20 in custom	285 dpi, crisp from a step back
12 × 16 in	trims 3.4 %	12 × 15½ in	12 × 16 in ready-made	16 × 20 in ready-made	18 × 22 in custom	250 dpi, crisp from a step back
16 × 20 in	trims 3 %	15½ × 20 in	16 × 20 in ready-made	20 × 24 in ready-made	22 × 26 in custom	200 dpi, crisp from a step back
18 × 24 in	trims 3.4 %	18 × 23¼ in	18 × 24 in ready-made	22 × 28 in ready-made	24 × 30 in ready-made	166 dpi, crisp from a step back
30 × 40 in	trims 3.4 %	30 × 38¾ in	30 × 40 in ready-made	34 × 44 in custom	36 × 46 in custom	100 dpi, soft up close
36 × 48 in	trims 3.4 %	36 × 46½ in	36 × 48 in ready-made	40 × 52 in custom	42 × 54 in custom	83 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) 451 × 560 px from Room Paintings
Web image 503 × 624 px from The Met
Print and original file 3,222 × 4,000 px from The Met
The museum’s record of this painting The Met

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.