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The Birth of the Virgin

Ventura Salimbeni · 1568–1613

Maximum print size

31.0 × 43.4 cm · 12.2 × 17.1 in

at 300 DPI from the 3,660 × 5,136 px original. Comfortably fills a standard 11×14 inch frame.

Frame: 40.6 × 50.8 cm · 16.0 × 20.0 in
Mat opening: 31.0 × 43.4 cm · 12.2 × 17.1 in
Mat border, sides: 4.8 cm · 1.9 in
Mat border, top and bottom: 3.6 cm · 1.4 in

Colour palette

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Details

Date: 1605/1610
Medium: pen and brown and red ink with brown and sanguine wash over red chalk, heightened with white gouache and squared in red chalk on laid paper washed ochre
Type: Drawing
Size: 33.7 × 23.1 cm · 13.3 × 9.1 in
Orientation: portrait
Collection: National Gallery of Art ↗