Virgin and Child with Saints Catherine of Alexandria and Barbara

Hans Memling (Netherlandish, 1465–1494)

Date: early 1480s
Medium: Oil on wood
Size: 27 × 28¾ in (68.3 × 73.3 cm)
Museum: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, accession 14.40.634. 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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Pick the furniture and a print size to see it to scale on your wall.

Where Print size

Print: 22½ × 24 in, the whole painting on 24 × 24 in paper
Center: 66½ in (169 cm) from the floor
Above the mantel: 6 in (15 cm) from the mantel to the frame
Ideal width: 44 to 50 in over a 66 in mantel
Why this height: Centered at eye level, this frame would not sit 4 to 8 in above the mantel, so the 6 in gap sets the height.

22½ × 24 in landscape print (57 × 61 cm), centered 66½ in from the floor, 6 in above the mantel. 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
8 × 10 in	trims 14.2 %	8 × 8½ in	8 × 10 in ready-made	12 × 14 in custom	14 × 16 in custom	465 dpi, crisp up close
12 × 12 in	trims 6.8 %	11¼ × 12 in	12 × 12 in ready-made	16 × 16 in ready-made	18 × 18 in custom	333 dpi, crisp up close
16 × 16 in	trims 6.8 %	15 × 16 in	16 × 16 in ready-made	20 × 20 in ready-made	22 × 22 in custom	250 dpi, crisp from a step back
16 × 20 in	trims 14.2 %	16 × 17¼ in	16 × 20 in ready-made	20 × 24 in ready-made	22 × 26 in custom	232 dpi, crisp from a step back
20 × 20 in	trims 6.8 %	18½ × 20 in	20 × 20 in ready-made	24 × 24 in ready-made	26 × 26 in custom	200 dpi, crisp from a step back
24 × 24 in	trims 6.8 %	22½ × 24 in	24 × 24 in ready-made	28 × 28 in custom	30 × 30 in custom	166 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) 560 × 524 px from Room Paintings
Web image 599 × 560 px from The Met
Print and original file 4,000 × 3,737 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.