Nicolas Poussin Landscape with Saint John on Patmos, 1640
The Holy Family on the Steps
Nicolas Poussin (French, 1594–1665)
- Date
- 1648
- Medium
- oil on canvas
- Size
- 28¾ × 41¾ in (73.3 × 105.8 cm)
- Museum
- Cleveland Museum of Art, accession 1981.18. See the museum’s record
- Credit
- Leonard C. Hanna Jr. Fund
Public domain image courtesy of the Cleveland Museum of Art (Open Access, CC0).
Palette
- #513E31, 37 % of the picture, closest to Chocolate walls
- #2D1F19, 37 % of the picture, closest to Black walls
- #435E73, 12 % of the picture, closest to Teal walls
- #8E745E, 12 % of the picture, closest to Olive walls
- #1B3255, 2 % of the picture, closest to Navy walls
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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 3.8 % of the picture)
- Center
- 55¼ in (140 cm) from the floor
- Above the sofa
- 8 in (20 cm) from the sofa to the frame
- Ideal width
- 56 to 63 in over an 84 in sofa
- Why this height
- Centered at eye level, this frame would not sit 6 to 10 in above the sofa, so the 8 in gap sets the height.
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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 3 % | 5 × 7 in | 5 × 7 in ready-made | 9 × 11 in custom | 11 × 13 in custom | 823 dpi, crisp up close |
| 20 × 30 in | trims 3.8 % | 20 × 29 in | 20 × 30 in ready-made | 24 × 34 in custom | 26 × 36 in custom | 200 dpi, crisp from a step back |
| 24 × 36 in | trims 3.8 % | 24 × 34½ in | 24 × 36 in ready-made | 28 × 40 in custom | 30 × 42 in custom | 166 dpi, crisp from a step back |
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) 560 × 384 px from Room Paintings
- Web image 1,263 × 867 px from Cleveland Museum of Art
- Print file 3,400 × 2,333 px from Cleveland Museum of Art
- Original file 6,000 × 4,117 px from Cleveland Museum of Art
- The museum’s record of this painting Cleveland Museum of Art
Public domain image courtesy of the Cleveland 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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Nicolas Poussin The Return of the Holy Family to Nazareth, c. 1627
Giovanni Battista Tiepolo Armida Encounters the Sleeping Rinaldo, c. 1742–45
Claude Lorrain View of Delphi with a Procession, 1673
Edgar Degas The Dance Class, 1874
Claude Monet Woman with a Parasol - Madame Monet and Her Son, 1875