Virgin and Child in a Niche

Workshop of Jan van Eyck (Netherlandish, 1390–1441)

Date: ca. 1440–50
Medium: Oil on wood
Size: 23 × 12¼ in (58.4 × 30.8 cm)
Museum: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, accession 89.15.24. See the museum’s record
Credit: Marquand Collection, Gift of Henry G. Marquand, 1889

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: 20 × 38 in, the whole painting on 20 × 60 in paper
Center: 58 in (147 cm) above the stair line

20 × 38 in portrait print (51 × 97 cm), centered 58 in above the stair line. 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 26.2 %	3¾ × 7 in	5 × 7 in ready-made	9 × 11 in custom	11 × 13 in custom	531 dpi, crisp up close
12 × 16 in	trims 29.7 %	8½ × 16 in	12 × 16 in ready-made	16 × 20 in ready-made	18 × 22 in custom	232 dpi, crisp from a step back
12 × 36 in	trims 36.7 %	12 × 22¾ in	12 × 36 in custom	16 × 40 in custom	18 × 42 in custom	163 dpi, crisp from a step back
20 × 30 in	trims 20.9 %	15¾ × 30 in	20 × 30 in ready-made	24 × 34 in custom	26 × 36 in custom	124 dpi, soft up close
24 × 36 in	trims 20.9 %	19 × 36 in	24 × 36 in ready-made	28 × 40 in custom	30 × 42 in custom	103 dpi, soft up close
20 × 60 in	trims 36.7 %	20 × 38 in	20 × 60 in custom	24 × 64 in custom	26 × 66 in custom	97 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) 301 × 560 px from Room Paintings
Web image 335 × 624 px from The Met
Print and original file 1,997 × 3,722 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.