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Shown from the waist up, an elderly man with pale, peachy skin, wavy, silvery-gray hair, and a long beard stands facing our right, almost filling this vertical painting.

Saint Peter

Studio of Peter Paul Rubens (Flemish, 1577–1640)

Date
c. 1616/1618
Medium
oil on panel
Size
36¼ × 26½ in (92 × 67.5 cm)
Museum
National Gallery of Art, Washington, accession 1960.6.32. See the museum’s record
Credit
Timken Collection

Public domain image courtesy of the National Gallery of Art (Open Access, CC0).

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Print
18 × 24 in, filling the paper (trims 2.1 % of the picture)
Center
58 in (147 cm) above the stair line
Saint Peter: an 18 × 24 in print hung beside a staircase, drawn to scale on a 12 × 8 ft wall
18 × 24 in portrait print (46 × 61 cm), centered 58 in above the stair line. Drawn to scale on a 12 × 8 ft wall.

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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 2.7 % 5 × 6¾ in 5 × 7 in ready-made 9 × 11 in custom 11 × 13 in custom 2550 dpi, crisp up close
12 × 16 in trims 2.1 % 11¾ × 16 in 12 × 16 in ready-made 16 × 20 in ready-made 18 × 22 in custom 1094 dpi, crisp up close
18 × 24 in trims 2.1 % 17½ × 24 in 18 × 24 in ready-made 22 × 28 in ready-made 24 × 30 in ready-made 729 dpi, crisp up close
30 × 40 in trims 2.1 % 29½ × 40 in 30 × 40 in ready-made 34 × 44 in custom 36 × 46 in custom 437 dpi, crisp up close
36 × 48 in trims 2.1 % 35¼ × 48 in 36 × 48 in ready-made 40 × 52 in custom 42 × 54 in custom 364 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).

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.

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