A naked man with ghostly white skin sits upright in a canopied bed set in a narrow room in this tall, vertical painting.

Death and the Miser

Hieronymus Bosch (Netherlandish, 1450–1516)

Date: c. 1485/1490
Medium: oil on panel
Size: 36½ × 12¼ in (93 × 31 cm)
Museum: National Gallery of Art, Washington, accession 1952.5.33. 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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Where Print size

Print: 20 × 60 in, filling the paper (trims 0.1 % 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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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
12 × 36 in	trims 0.1 %	12 × 36 in	12 × 36 in custom	16 × 40 in custom	18 × 42 in custom	1026 dpi, crisp up close
20 × 60 in	trims 0.1 %	20 × 60 in	20 × 60 in custom	24 × 64 in custom	26 × 66 in custom	616 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) 187 × 560 px from Room Paintings
Web image 282 × 843 px from National Gallery of Art
Print file 669 × 2,000 px from National Gallery of Art
Original file 12,375 × 36,971 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.