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Study for a Monument to a Princely Figure

François Boucher

32 cm × 38 cm

About the size of an open laptop. You would need 4 of them to reach a person's height.

Against things you know the size of

Height: 38 cm
Width: 32 cm
Medium: Oil on paper, mounted on board
Kind: Pastels & Oil Sketches on Paper
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: 15 x 12 5/8 in. (38.1 x 32.1 cm)
Credit: Gift of J. Pierpont Morgan, 1906

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

How big is it?: 32 cm × 38 cm. About the size of an open laptop. Measured by the museum.
When was it made, and when is it everyone’s?: Made 1770. 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: Gift of J. Pierpont Morgan, 1906.
How was it made?: Oil on paper, mounted on board.
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.