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Still Life with Peaches and Grapes

Pierre-Auguste Renoir, 1881

Still Life with Peaches and Grapes by Pierre-Auguste Renoir
Still Life with Peaches and Grapes by Pierre-Auguste Renoir, 65 cm × 54 cm
1.70 m
Both at true scale.

65 cm × 54 cm

About the size of a bathroom mirror. You would need 3 of them to reach a person's height.

Against things you know the size of

This work 54 cm Phone 15 cm A4 sheet 30 cm Person 1.7 m Doorway 2.03 m
Height
54 cm
Width
65 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
21 1/4 x 25 5/8 in. (54 x 65.1 cm)
Credit
The Mr. and Mrs. Henry Ittleson Jr. Purchase Fund, 1956

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

How big is it?
65 cm × 54 cm. About the size of a bathroom mirror. Measured by the museum.
When was it made, and when is it everyone’s?
Made 1881. 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 Mr. and Mrs. Henry Ittleson Jr. Purchase Fund, 1956.
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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