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Madonna and Child with Saint Martina and Saint Agnes

El Greco (Domenikos Theotokopoulos), 1597/1599

Madonna and Child with Saint Martina and Saint Agnes by El Greco (Domenikos Theotokopoulos)
Madonna and Child with Saint Martina and Saint Agnes by El Greco (Domenikos Theotokopoulos), 1.03 m × 1.94 m
1.70 m
Both at true scale.

1.03 m × 1.94 m

Almost as tall as a doorway. It comes to about the height of the person standing beside it.

Against things you know the size of

This work 1.94 m Phone 15 cm A4 sheet 30 cm Person 1.7 m Doorway 2.03 m
Height
1.94 m
Width
1.03 m
Medium
oil on canvas, wooden strip added at bottom
Kind
Painting
Where the measurement comes from
Measured by the museum. The dimension is the one recorded by the institution that holds the work.
Credit
Widener Collection

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

How big is it?
1.03 m × 1.94 m. Almost as tall as a doorway. Measured by the museum.
When was it made, and when is it everyone’s?
Made 1597/1599. It is in the public domain, and National Gallery of Art publishes it for open use.
Whose is it?
Everyone’s to see. It is held by National Gallery of Art: Widener Collection.
How was it made?
Oil on canvas, wooden strip added at bottom.
Who speaks for it?
Its record at National Gallery of Art. Measured by the museum. This gallery adds nothing it cannot cite.

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One email. The smallest thing in the collection, the largest, and two that hang well together.

Hangs well beside

Scored on colour, shape, era and scale, the same way the gallery hangs them.