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Landscape along a River

Charles François Daubigny, 1860s or 1870s

43 cm × 27 cm

About the size of an open laptop. You would need 4 of them to reach a person's height.

Against things you know the size of

Height: 27 cm
Width: 43 cm
Medium: Black and white chalk on papier bleute, faded to tan
Kind: Drawings
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: 10 3/16 x 16 3/4 in. (25.8 x 42.5 cm)
Why this differs from the record: Recorded as 43 cm × 26 cm. Hung to match the photograph.
Credit: Robert Lehman Collection, 1975

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

How big is it?: 43 cm × 27 cm. About the size of an open laptop. Measured by the museum.
When was it made, and when is it everyone’s?: Made 1860s or 1870s. 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: Robert Lehman Collection, 1975.
How was it made?: Black and white chalk on papier bleute, faded to tan.
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.