A woman and two children, all with pale skin and flushed cheeks, sit together in a landscape in this round painting. The woman takes up most of the composition as she sits with her right leg, to our left, tucked under her body.

The Alba Madonna

Raphael (Italian, 1483–1520)

Date: c. 1510
Medium: oil on panel transferred to canvas
Museum: National Gallery of Art, Washington, accession 1937.1.24. See the museum’s record
Credit: Andrew W. Mellon Collection

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.

Where Print size

Print: 24 × 24 in, filling the paper
Center: 67¼ in (171 cm) from the floor
Above the mantel: 6 in (15 cm) from the mantel to the frame
Ideal width: 44 to 50 in over a 66 in mantel
Why this height: Centered at eye level, this frame would not sit 4 to 8 in above the mantel, so the 6 in gap sets the height.

24 × 24 in square print (61 × 61 cm), centered 67¼ in from the floor, 6 in above the mantel. 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
12 × 12 in	no trim	12 × 12 in	12 × 12 in ready-made	16 × 16 in ready-made	18 × 18 in custom	2015 dpi, crisp up close
16 × 16 in	no trim	16 × 16 in	16 × 16 in ready-made	20 × 20 in ready-made	22 × 22 in custom	1511 dpi, crisp up close
20 × 20 in	no trim	20 × 20 in	20 × 20 in ready-made	24 × 24 in ready-made	26 × 26 in custom	1209 dpi, crisp up close
24 × 24 in	no trim	24 × 24 in	24 × 24 in ready-made	28 × 28 in custom	30 × 30 in custom	1007 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.

Download

Free for any use, including commercial: this image is public domain (CC0).

Thumbnail (WebP) 560 × 560 px from Room Paintings
Web image 843 × 843 px from National Gallery of Art
Print file 2,000 × 2,000 px from National Gallery of Art
Original file 24,180 × 24,180 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.