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Le Bain d'Amour (Love Bath) (Furnishing Fabric)

Favre-Petitpierre et Cie., c. 1825

1.19 m × 66 cm

About the size of a cafe table. It comes to about the height of the person standing beside it.

Against things you know the size of

Height: 66 cm
Width: 1.19 m
Medium: Cotton, copperplate printed
Kind: Textile
Made in: Nantes
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: 119.4 × 66 cm (47 × 26 in.)
Why this differs from the record: Recorded as 66 cm × 1.19 m. Hung the other way up, because the photograph of it is.
Credit: Gift of Mrs. Potter Palmer, II

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

How big is it?: 1.19 m × 66 cm. About the size of a cafe table. Measured by the museum.
When was it made, and when is it everyone’s?: Made c. 1825. It is in the public domain, and The Art Institute of Chicago publishes it for open use.
Whose is it?: Everyone’s to see. It is held by The Art Institute of Chicago: Gift of Mrs. Potter Palmer, II.
How was it made?: Cotton, copperplate printed, made in Nantes.
Who speaks for it?: Its record at The Art Institute of Chicago. 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.