An older, pale-skinned man wearing a richly brocaded robe and bishop’s mitre stands under a rounded arch in front of a deep landscape in this tall, narrow, vertical painting.

The Saint Anne Altarpiece: Saint Nicholas [left panel]

Workshop of Gerard David (Netherlandish, 1455–1523)

Date: c. 1500/1520
Medium: oil on panel
Size: 92¼ × 29½ in (234 × 74.9 cm)
Museum: National Gallery of Art, Washington, accession 1942.9.17.a. See the museum’s record
Credit: Widener Collection

Public domain image courtesy of the National Gallery of Art (Open Access, CC0).

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Where Print size

Print: 20 × 60 in, filling the paper (trims 4 % of the picture)
Center: 58 in (147 cm) from the floor

20 × 60 in panoramic print (51 × 152 cm), centered 58 in from the floor. 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
12 × 36 in	trims 4 %	11½ × 36 in	12 × 36 in custom	16 × 40 in custom	18 × 42 in custom	339 dpi, crisp up close
20 × 60 in	trims 4 %	19¼ × 60 in	20 × 60 in custom	24 × 64 in custom	26 × 66 in custom	203 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).

Thumbnail (WebP) 173 × 560 px from Room Paintings
Web image 261 × 843 px from National Gallery of Art
Print file 618 × 2,000 px from National Gallery of Art
Original file 4,070 × 13,165 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.