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The Dance
Hubert Robert, 1777–79
1.70 m
85 cm × 1.73 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
- Height
- 1.73 m
- Width
- 85 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
- 68 1/4 x 33 5/8 in. (173.4 x 85.4 cm)
- Credit
- Gift of J. Pierpont Morgan, 1917
Ask this work
Five questions, answered from its own record. What is AGAI?
- How big is it?
- 85 cm × 1.73 m. Almost as tall as you are. Measured by the museum.
- When was it made, and when is it everyone’s?
- Made 1777–79. 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 canvas.
- Who speaks for it?
- Its record at The Metropolitan Museum of Art. Measured by the museum. This gallery adds nothing it cannot cite.
Its colours
Read from the picture. Copy a colour, keep the palette, or furnish a room in it. My palettes
Stand next to it in the gallery Record at The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Four works a week, shown at their real size
One email. The smallest thing in the collection, the largest, and two that hang well together.
Hangs well beside
Scored on colour, shape, era and scale, the same way the gallery hangs them.
