This painting displays a man standing upright, with his back against a tree. His hands are behind his back, and his face is turned to the right. He has pale skin, and his face is a mix of pale pink and light blue.

Saint Sebastian

Odilon Redon (French, 1840–1916)

Date: 1910/1912
Medium: oil on canvas
Size: 56¾ × 24½ in (144 × 62.5 cm)
Museum: National Gallery of Art, Washington, accession 1963.10.57. See the museum’s record
Credit: Chester Dale Collection

Public domain image courtesy of the National Gallery 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 × 46 in, the whole painting on 20 × 60 in paper
Center: 58 in (147 cm) from the floor

20 × 46 in panoramic print (51 × 117 cm), centered 58 in from the floor. 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 39.2 %	3 × 7 in	5 × 7 in ready-made	9 × 11 in custom	11 × 13 in custom	3810 dpi, crisp up close
12 × 16 in	trims 42.1 %	7 × 16 in	12 × 16 in ready-made	16 × 20 in ready-made	18 × 22 in custom	1656 dpi, crisp up close
12 × 36 in	trims 23.2 %	12 × 27½ in	12 × 36 in custom	16 × 40 in custom	18 × 42 in custom	952 dpi, crisp up close
20 × 30 in	trims 34.9 %	13 × 30 in	20 × 30 in ready-made	24 × 34 in custom	26 × 36 in custom	879 dpi, crisp up close
24 × 36 in	trims 34.9 %	15½ × 36 in	24 × 36 in ready-made	28 × 40 in custom	30 × 42 in custom	732 dpi, crisp up close
20 × 60 in	trims 23.2 %	20 × 46 in	20 × 60 in custom	24 × 64 in custom	26 × 66 in custom	571 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) 240 × 560 px from Room Paintings
Web image 361 × 843 px from National Gallery of Art
Print file 857 × 2,000 px from National Gallery of Art
Original file 11,433 × 26,676 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.