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Reclining Male Nude (verso)
Édouard Vuillard, c. 1887–89
1.70 m
27 cm × 35 cm
About the size of an open laptop. You would need 5 of them to reach a person's height.
Against things you know the size of
- Height
- 35 cm
- Width
- 27 cm
- Medium
- Black chalk
- Kind
- Drawing
- Made in
- France, 19th century
- 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: 34.8 x 27.2 cm (13 11/16 x 10 11/16 in.)
- Credit
- Bequest of William Kelly Simpson
Ask this work
Five questions, answered from its own record. What is AGAI?
- How big is it?
- 27 cm × 35 cm. About the size of an open laptop. Measured by the museum.
- When was it made, and when is it everyone’s?
- Made c. 1887–89. 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: Bequest of William Kelly Simpson.
- How was it made?
- Black chalk, made in France, 19th century, France, 19th century.
- Who speaks for it?
- Its record at The Cleveland 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 Cleveland Museum of Art
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Hangs well beside
Scored on colour, shape, era and scale, the same way the gallery hangs them.
