A Maid Asleep

Johannes Vermeer (Dutch, 1632–1675)

Date: ca. 1656–57
Medium: Oil on canvas
Size: 34½ × 30 in (87.6 × 76.5 cm)
Museum: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, accession 14.40.611. 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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Where Print size

Print: 18 × 20½ in, the whole painting on 18 × 24 in paper
Center: 58 in (147 cm) above the stair line

18 × 20½ in portrait print (46 × 52 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
8 × 10 in	trims 8.4 %	8 × 9¼ in	8 × 10 in ready-made	12 × 14 in custom	14 × 16 in custom	419 dpi, crisp up close
11 × 14 in	trims 10 %	11 × 12½ in	11 × 14 in ready-made	15 × 18 in custom	17 × 20 in custom	305 dpi, crisp up close
12 × 16 in	trims 14.1 %	12 × 13¾ in	12 × 16 in ready-made	16 × 20 in ready-made	18 × 22 in custom	280 dpi, crisp from a step back
16 × 20 in	trims 8.4 %	16 × 18¼ in	16 × 20 in ready-made	20 × 24 in ready-made	22 × 26 in custom	210 dpi, crisp from a step back
18 × 24 in	trims 14.1 %	18 × 20½ in	18 × 24 in ready-made	22 × 28 in ready-made	24 × 30 in ready-made	186 dpi, crisp from a step back
30 × 40 in	trims 14.1 %	30 × 34½ in	30 × 40 in ready-made	34 × 44 in custom	36 × 46 in custom	112 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) 488 × 560 px from Room Paintings
Web image 544 × 624 px from The Met
Print and original file 3,365 × 3,861 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.