A cleanshaven man in a saffron-yellow cloak runs and points to a nude woman whose fingers are turning into leafy tree branches in this horizontal painting.

Apollo Pursuing Daphne

Giovanni Battista Tiepolo (Italian, 1696–1770)

Date: c. 1755/1760
Medium: oil on canvas
Size: 27 × 34¼ in (68.5 × 87 cm)
Museum: National Gallery of Art, Washington, accession 1952.5.78. 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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Pick the furniture and a print size to see it to scale on your wall.

Where Print size

Print: 36 × 48 in, filling the paper (trims 4.7 % of the picture)
Center: 61¼ in (156 cm) from the floor
Above the sofa: 8 in (20 cm) from the sofa to the frame
Ideal width: 56 to 63 in over an 84 in sofa
Why this height: Centered at eye level, this frame would not sit 6 to 10 in above the sofa, so the 8 in gap sets the height.

36 × 48 in landscape print (91 × 122 cm), centered 61¼ in from the floor, 8 in above the sofa. Drawn to scale on a 12 × 8 ft wall.

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Print it

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 1.6 %	8 × 10 in	8 × 10 in ready-made	12 × 14 in custom	14 × 16 in custom	3240 dpi, crisp up close
11 × 14 in	trims 0.2 %	11 × 14 in	11 × 14 in ready-made	15 × 18 in custom	17 × 20 in custom	2351 dpi, crisp up close
12 × 16 in	trims 4.7 %	12 × 15¼ in	12 × 16 in ready-made	16 × 20 in ready-made	18 × 22 in custom	2057 dpi, crisp up close
16 × 20 in	trims 1.6 %	15¾ × 20 in	16 × 20 in ready-made	20 × 24 in ready-made	22 × 26 in custom	1620 dpi, crisp up close
18 × 24 in	trims 4.7 %	18 × 23 in	18 × 24 in ready-made	22 × 28 in ready-made	24 × 30 in ready-made	1371 dpi, crisp up close
30 × 40 in	trims 4.7 %	30 × 38 in	30 × 40 in ready-made	34 × 44 in custom	36 × 46 in custom	822 dpi, crisp up close
36 × 48 in	trims 4.7 %	36 × 45¾ in	36 × 48 in ready-made	40 × 52 in custom	42 × 54 in custom	685 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).

Thumbnail (WebP) 560 × 441 px from Room Paintings
Web image 843 × 664 px from National Gallery of Art
Print file 2,000 × 1,575 px from National Gallery of Art
Original file 32,915 × 25,922 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.