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Canal Side

Jacob Maris

Canal Side by Jacob Maris
Canal Side by Jacob Maris, 18 cm × 14 cm
1.70 m
Both at true scale.

18 cm × 14 cm

About the size of your phone. You would need 10 of them to reach a person's height.

Against things you know the size of

This work 14 cm Phone 15 cm A4 sheet 30 cm Person 1.7 m Doorway 2.03 m
Height
14 cm
Width
18 cm
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
5 3/8 x 7 in. (13.7 x 17.8 cm)
Credit
Bequest of Margaret Crane Hurlbut, 1933

Ask this work

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

How big is it?
18 cm × 14 cm. About the size of your phone. Measured by the museum.
When was it made, and when is it everyone’s?
Made 1899. 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 Margaret Crane Hurlbut, 1933.
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.