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Basket of Flowers

Eugène Delacroix, 1848–49

Basket of Flowers by Eugène Delacroix
Basket of Flowers by Eugène Delacroix, 1.42 m × 1.07 m
1.70 m
Both at true scale.

1.42 m × 1.07 m

Almost as tall as you are. It comes to about the height of the person standing beside it.

Against things you know the size of

This work 1.07 m Phone 15 cm A4 sheet 30 cm Person 1.7 m Doorway 2.03 m
Height
1.07 m
Width
1.42 m
Medium
Oil on canvas
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
42 1/4 x 56 in. (107.3 x 142.2 cm)
Credit
Bequest of Miss Adelaide Milton de Groot (1876-1967), 1967

Ask this work

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

How big is it?
1.42 m × 1.07 m. Almost as tall as you are. Measured by the museum.
When was it made, and when is it everyone’s?
Made 1848–49. 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: Bequest of Miss Adelaide Milton de Groot (1876-1967), 1967.
How was it made?
Oil on canvas.
Who speaks for it?
Its record at The Metropolitan Museum of Art. Measured by the museum. This gallery adds nothing it cannot cite.

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Hangs well beside

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