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Monks Buying Fish before the Portal of the Madonna della Misericordia

Ludwig Johann Passini, 1855

33 cm × 47 cm

About the size of an open laptop. You would need 4 of them to reach a person's height.

Against things you know the size of

Height: 47 cm
Width: 33 cm
Medium: watercolor and gouache over graphite on wove paper, touched with gum arabic
Kind: Drawing
Where the measurement comes from: Measured by the museum. The dimension is the one recorded by the institution that holds the work.
Credit: Alexander M. and Judith W. Laughlin Fund

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

How big is it?: 33 cm × 47 cm. About the size of an open laptop. Measured by the museum.
When was it made, and when is it everyone’s?: Made 1855. 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: Alexander M. and Judith W. Laughlin Fund.
How was it made?: Watercolor and gouache over graphite on wove paper, touched with gum arabic.
Who speaks for it?: Its record at National Gallery of Art. Measured by the museum. This gallery adds nothing it cannot cite.

The gallery's walk hangs a selection. This work can hang in a room of its own, with five works that hang well beside it, at their real size.

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.