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Virgin and Child

Albrecht Dürer, 1516

22 cm × 28 cm

About the size of a sheet of A4. You would need 6 of them to reach a person's height.

Against things you know the size of

Height: 28 cm
Width: 22 cm
Medium: Oil on spruce
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: 11 x 7 3/8 in. (27.9 x 18.7 cm)
Why this differs from the record: Recorded as 21 cm × 28 cm. Hung to match the photograph.
Credit: Gift of J. Pierpont Morgan, 1917

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

How big is it?: 22 cm × 28 cm. About the size of a sheet of A4. Measured by the museum.
When was it made, and when is it everyone’s?: Made 1516. 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, 1917.
How was it made?: Oil on spruce.
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.