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Study for the Ceiling of the Marquand Music Room

Frederic, Lord Leighton, ca. 1886

43 cm × 19 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: 19 cm
Width: 43 cm
Medium: Oil and gold 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: Central canvas 12 x 17 in. (30.5 x 43.2 cm)
Why this differs from the record: Recorded as 43 cm × 31 cm. Hung to match the photograph.
Credit: Bequest of James David Draper, from the Robert Isaacson Collection, 2019

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

How big is it?: 43 cm × 19 cm. About the size of an open laptop. Measured by the museum.
When was it made, and when is it everyone’s?: Made ca. 1886. 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 James David Draper, from the Robert Isaacson Collection, 2019.
How was it made?: Oil and gold 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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Scored on colour, shape, era and scale, the same way the gallery hangs them.