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Island of the Dead

Arnold Böcklin, 1880

1.22 m × 74 cm

About the size of a cafe table. It comes to about the height of the person standing beside it.

Against things you know the size of

Height: 74 cm
Width: 1.22 m
Medium: Oil on wood
Kind: Paintings
Where the measurement comes from: Measured by the museum. The dimension is the one recorded by the institution that holds the work.
As the museum records it: 29 x 48 in. (73.7 x 121.9 cm)
Credit: Reisinger Fund, 1926

Five questions, answered from its own record. What is AGAI?

How big is it?: 1.22 m × 74 cm. About the size of a cafe table. Measured by the museum.
When was it made, and when is it everyone’s?: Made 1880. It is in the public domain, and The Metropolitan Museum of Art publishes it for open use.
Whose is it?: Everyone’s to see. It is held by The Metropolitan Museum of Art: Reisinger Fund, 1926.
How was it made?: Oil on wood.
Who speaks for it?: Its record at The Metropolitan Museum of Art. Measured by the museum. This gallery adds nothing it cannot cite.

One email. The smallest thing in the collection, the largest, and two that hang well together.

Scored on colour, shape, era and scale, the same way the gallery hangs them.