The Annunciation

Hans Memling (Netherlandish, 1465–1494)

Date: ca. 1465–70
Medium: Oil on wood
Size: 73¼ × 45¼ in (186.1 × 114.9 cm)
Museum: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, accession 17.190.7. See the museum’s record
Credit: Gift of J. Pierpont Morgan, 1917

Public domain image courtesy of The Metropolitan Museum 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: 24¾ × 40 in, the whole painting on 30 × 40 in paper
Center: 58 in (147 cm) from the floor

24¾ × 40 in portrait print (63 × 102 cm), centered 58 in from the floor. Drawn to scale on a 12 × 8 ft wall.

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Print it

No standard paper matches this painting’s proportions closely, so print it whole with a white border, or trim the edges to fill the paper.

Paper	Filling the paper	Printed whole	Frame	Frame with a 2 in mat	Frame with a 3 in mat	Sharpness
5 × 7 in	trims 13.6 %	4¼ × 7 in	5 × 7 in ready-made	9 × 11 in custom	11 × 13 in custom	554 dpi, crisp up close
12 × 16 in	trims 17.7 %	10 × 16 in	12 × 16 in ready-made	16 × 20 in ready-made	18 × 22 in custom	242 dpi, crisp from a step back
18 × 24 in	trims 17.7 %	14¾ × 24 in	18 × 24 in ready-made	22 × 28 in ready-made	24 × 30 in ready-made	161 dpi, crisp from a step back
20 × 30 in	trims 7.5 %	18½ × 30 in	20 × 30 in ready-made	24 × 34 in custom	26 × 36 in custom	129 dpi, soft up close
24 × 36 in	trims 7.5 %	22¼ × 36 in	24 × 36 in ready-made	28 × 40 in custom	30 × 42 in custom	107 dpi, soft up close
30 × 40 in	trims 17.7 %	24¾ × 40 in	30 × 40 in ready-made	34 × 44 in custom	36 × 46 in custom	96 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) 350 × 560 px from Room Paintings
Web image 390 × 624 px from The Met
Print and original file 2,425 × 3,878 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.