Shown from the waist up and nearly filling the picture, a young woman with pale skin, dressed in a jewel-toned gown and cape, looks out at us in this vertical painting.

Saint Catherine

Lorenzo Lotto (Italian, 1480–1557)

Date: 1522
Medium: oil on panel
Size: 22½ × 19¾ in (57.2 × 50.2 cm)
Museum: National Gallery of Art, Washington, accession 1939.1.117. 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: 17½ × 20 in, the whole painting on 20 × 20 in paper
Center: 58 in (147 cm) above the stair line

17½ × 20 in portrait print (45 × 51 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 8.9 %	8 × 9 in	8 × 10 in ready-made	12 × 14 in custom	14 × 16 in custom	1671 dpi, crisp up close
12 × 12 in	trims 12.2 %	10½ × 12 in	12 × 12 in ready-made	16 × 16 in ready-made	18 × 18 in custom	1267 dpi, crisp up close
11 × 14 in	trims 10.5 %	11 × 12½ in	11 × 14 in ready-made	15 × 18 in custom	17 × 20 in custom	1216 dpi, crisp up close
16 × 16 in	trims 12.2 %	14 × 16 in	16 × 16 in ready-made	20 × 20 in ready-made	22 × 22 in custom	950 dpi, crisp up close
16 × 20 in	trims 8.9 %	16 × 18¼ in	16 × 20 in ready-made	20 × 24 in ready-made	22 × 26 in custom	835 dpi, crisp up close
20 × 20 in	trims 12.2 %	17½ × 20 in	20 × 20 in ready-made	24 × 24 in ready-made	26 × 26 in custom	760 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) 501 × 560 px from Room Paintings
Web image 754 × 843 px from National Gallery of Art
Print file 1,790 × 2,000 px from National Gallery of Art
Original file 13,615 × 15,212 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.