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Mother's Goodnight Kiss

Mary Cassatt, 1888

68 cm × 84 cm

About the size of a bathroom mirror. You would need 2 of them to reach a person's height.

Against things you know the size of

Height: 84 cm
Width: 68 cm
Medium: Pastel on blue-gray wove paper (faded to tan), mounted on canvas, on a strainer
Kind: Drawing and Watercolor
Made in: United States
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: 84 × 73.8 cm (33 1/8 × 29 1/16 in.)
Why this differs from the record: Recorded as 74 cm × 84 cm. Hung to match the photograph.
Credit: Gift of Honoré and Potter Palmer

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

How big is it?: 68 cm × 84 cm. About the size of a bathroom mirror. Measured by the museum.
When was it made, and when is it everyone’s?: Made 1888. 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 Honoré and Potter Palmer.
How was it made?: Pastel on blue-gray wove paper (faded to tan), mounted on canvas, on a strainer, made in United States.
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.