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A man and woman greet each other at the center of a group of about a dozen people set within a landscape in this horizontal painting. All the people have pale, peachy skin.

The Meeting of David and Abigail

Peter Paul Rubens (Flemish, 1577–1640)

Date
c. 1630
Medium
oil on panel
Size
17½ × 26 in (44.7 × 66.3 cm)
Museum
National Gallery of Art, Washington, accession 1997.57.8. See the museum’s record
Credit
Bequest of Lore Heinemann in memory of her husband, Dr. Rudolf J. Heinemann

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

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Hang it

Pick the furniture and a print size to see it to scale on your wall.

Print
24 × 36 in, filling the paper (trims 1.1 % 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.
The Meeting of David and Abigail: a 24 × 36 in print hung above a sofa, drawn to scale on a 12 × 8 ft wall
24 × 36 in landscape print (61 × 91 cm), centered 55¼ in from the floor, 8 in above the sofa. Drawn to scale on a 12 × 8 ft wall.

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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 5.6 % 4¾ × 7 in 5 × 7 in ready-made 9 × 11 in custom 11 × 13 in custom 3587 dpi, crisp up close
20 × 30 in trims 1.1 % 20 × 29¾ in 20 × 30 in ready-made 24 × 34 in custom 26 × 36 in custom 877 dpi, crisp up close
24 × 36 in trims 1.1 % 24 × 35½ in 24 × 36 in ready-made 28 × 40 in custom 30 × 42 in custom 731 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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