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Dancer Onstage

Edgar Degas, ca. 1877

1.70 m

Both at true scale.

21 cm × 17 cm

About the size of your phone. You would need 8 of them to reach a person's height.

Against things you know the size of

Height: 17 cm
Width: 21 cm
Medium: Gouache over graphite underdrawing on thin wove commercially coated yellow paper, laid down on board
Kind: Drawings
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: Paper 6 3/4 x 8 3/8 in. (17.1 x 21.3 cm)
Credit: The Lesley and Emma Sheafer Collection, Bequest of Emma A. Sheafer, 1973

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

How big is it?: 21 cm × 17 cm. About the size of your phone. Measured by the museum.
When was it made, and when is it everyone’s?: Made ca. 1877. 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: The Lesley and Emma Sheafer Collection, Bequest of Emma A. Sheafer, 1973.
How was it made?: Gouache over graphite underdrawing on thin wove commercially coated yellow paper, laid down 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.