Jean Hey, The Annunciation, 1490–95
Margaret of Austria
Jean Hey, (Master of Moulins; Netherlandish, 1475–1499)
- Date
- ca. 1490
- Medium
- Oil on oak panel
- Size
- 12¾ × 9 in (32.7 × 23 cm)
- Museum
- The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, accession 1975.1.130. See the museum’s record
- Credit
- Robert Lehman Collection, 1975
Public domain image courtesy of The Metropolitan Museum of Art (Open Access, CC0).
Palette
- #381D19, 28 % of the picture, closest to Chocolate walls
- #503625, 26 % of the picture, closest to Chocolate walls
- #64563D, 19 % of the picture, closest to Chocolate walls
- #A09B92, 13 % of the picture, closest to Taupe walls
- #6E756E, 13 % of the picture, closest to Teal walls
Closest wall colors:
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Hang it
Pick the furniture and a print size to see it to scale on your wall.
- 24 × 36 in, filling the paper (trims 5.2 % of the picture)
- Center
- 58 in (147 cm) above the stair line
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Default greige
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 5 × 7 in | trims 1.6 % | 5 × 7 in | 5 × 7 in ready-made | 9 × 11 in custom | 11 × 13 in custom | 571 dpi, crisp up close |
| 20 × 30 in | trims 5.2 % | 20 × 28½ in | 20 × 30 in ready-made | 24 × 34 in custom | 26 × 36 in custom | 133 dpi, soft up close |
| 24 × 36 in | trims 5.2 % | 24 × 34 in | 24 × 36 in ready-made | 28 × 40 in custom | 30 × 42 in custom | 111 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.
Download
Free for any use, including commercial: this image is public domain (CC0).
- Thumbnail (WebP) 405 × 560 px from Room Paintings
- Web image 451 × 624 px from The Met
- Print and original file 2,891 × 4,000 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.
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Pierre-Auguste Renoir Two Sisters (On the Terrace), 1881
Francisco de Goya Manuel Osorio Manrique de Zuñiga (1784–1792), 1787–88
Gustave Caillebotte Paris Street; Rainy Day, 1877
Georges Seurat A Sunday on La Grande Jatte — 1884, 1884–86, border added 1888–89
Gustav Klimt Mäda Primavesi (1903–2000), 1912–13