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Reconciliation of the Romans and the Sabines (recto) Venus Disarming Mars, Drapery Study (verso)

Peter Paul Rubens, c. 1632/35

49 cm × 20 cm

About the size of an open laptop. You would need 3 of them to reach a person's height.

Against things you know the size of

Height: 20 cm
Width: 49 cm
Medium: pen and brown ink and brush and gray and brown wash; framing lines in brown ink
Kind: Drawing
Made in: Flanders
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: Sheet: 19.9 x 49.2 cm (7 13/16 x 19 3/8 in.)
Why this differs from the record: Recorded as 49 cm × 20 cm. Turned to face the way the photograph does.
Credit: Purchase from the J. H. Wade Fund

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

How big is it?: 49 cm × 20 cm. About the size of an open laptop. Measured by the museum.
When was it made, and when is it everyone’s?: Made c. 1632/35. It is in the public domain, and The Cleveland Museum of Art publishes it for open use.
Whose is it?: Everyone’s to see. It is held by The Cleveland Museum of Art: Purchase from the J. H. Wade Fund.
How was it made?: Pen and brown ink and brush and gray and brown wash; framing lines in brown ink, made in Flanders, Flanders.
Who speaks for it?: Its record at The Cleveland 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.