Shown from about the knees up, an older, bearded, pale-skinned man sits at a desk with his head in one hand in a shadowy room in this vertical painting. His body is angled to our right, and he sits in a heavy wooden armchair next to a desk.

The Apostle Paul

Rembrandt van Rijn (Dutch, 1606–1669)

Date: c. 1657
Medium: oil on canvas
Size: 51¾ × 41 in (131.5 × 104.4 cm)
Museum: National Gallery of Art, Washington, accession 1942.9.59. See the museum’s record
Credit: Widener Collection

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

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Where Print size

Print: 18 × 24 in, filling the paper (trims 5.5 % of the picture)
Center: 58 in (147 cm) above the stair line

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
8 × 10 in	trims 0.7 %	8 × 10 in	8 × 10 in ready-made	12 × 14 in custom	14 × 16 in custom	2225 dpi, crisp up close
11 × 14 in	trims 1 %	11 × 14 in	11 × 14 in ready-made	15 × 18 in custom	17 × 20 in custom	1594 dpi, crisp up close
12 × 16 in	trims 5.5 %	12 × 15 in	12 × 16 in ready-made	16 × 20 in ready-made	18 × 22 in custom	1394 dpi, crisp up close
16 × 20 in	trims 0.7 %	16 × 20 in	16 × 20 in ready-made	20 × 24 in ready-made	22 × 26 in custom	1112 dpi, crisp up close
18 × 24 in	trims 5.5 %	18 × 22¾ in	18 × 24 in ready-made	22 × 28 in ready-made	24 × 30 in ready-made	929 dpi, crisp up close
30 × 40 in	trims 5.5 %	30 × 37¾ in	30 × 40 in ready-made	34 × 44 in custom	36 × 46 in custom	557 dpi, crisp up close
36 × 48 in	trims 5.5 %	36 × 45¼ in	36 × 48 in ready-made	40 × 52 in custom	42 × 54 in custom	464 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) 446 × 560 px from Room Paintings
Web image 672 × 843 px from National Gallery of Art
Print file 1,595 × 2,000 px from National Gallery of Art
Original file 17,803 × 22,319 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.