A woman and winged angel, both with pale, peach skin, are situated in a church interior in this tall, narrow painting. To our left, the angel has long, blond, curly hair, smooth skin, and is smiling.

The Annunciation

Jan van Eyck (Netherlandish, 1390–1441)

Date: c. 1434/1436
Medium: oil on canvas transferred from panel
Size: 35½ × 13½ in (90.2 × 34.1 cm)
Museum: National Gallery of Art, Washington, accession 1937.1.39. See the museum’s record
Credit: Andrew W. Mellon Collection

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

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Hang it

Pick the furniture and a print size to see it to scale on your wall.

Where Print size

Print: 20 × 53 in, the whole painting on 20 × 60 in paper
Center: 58 in (147 cm) from the floor

20 × 53 in panoramic print (51 × 134 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 47.1 %	2½ × 7 in	5 × 7 in ready-made	9 × 11 in custom	11 × 13 in custom	5780 dpi, crisp up close
12 × 16 in	trims 49.6 %	6 × 16 in	12 × 16 in ready-made	16 × 20 in ready-made	18 × 22 in custom	2528 dpi, crisp up close
12 × 36 in	trims 11.8 %	12 × 31¾ in	12 × 36 in custom	16 × 40 in custom	18 × 42 in custom	1276 dpi, crisp up close
20 × 30 in	trims 43.3 %	11¼ × 30 in	20 × 30 in ready-made	24 × 34 in custom	26 × 36 in custom	1348 dpi, crisp up close
24 × 36 in	trims 43.3 %	13½ × 36 in	24 × 36 in ready-made	28 × 40 in custom	30 × 42 in custom	1123 dpi, crisp up close
20 × 60 in	trims 11.8 %	20 × 53 in	20 × 60 in custom	24 × 64 in custom	26 × 66 in custom	764 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) 213 × 560 px from Room Paintings
Web image 320 × 843 px from National Gallery of Art
Print file 758 × 2,000 px from National Gallery of Art
Original file 15,339 × 40,461 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.