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The Cartographer Professor Josef Jüttner and His Wife

Ferdinand Georg Waldmüller, 1824

The Cartographer Professor Josef Jüttner and His Wife by Ferdinand Georg Waldmüller
The Cartographer Professor Josef Jüttner and His Wife by Ferdinand Georg Waldmüller, 33 cm × 41 cm
1.70 m
Both at true scale.

33 cm × 41 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

This work 41 cm Phone 15 cm A4 sheet 30 cm Person 1.7 m Doorway 2.03 m
Height
41 cm
Width
33 cm
Medium
oil on wood
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
Gift of Marlene, Paul and John Herring

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

How big is it?
33 cm × 41 cm. About the size of an open laptop. Measured by the museum.
When was it made, and when is it everyone’s?
Made 1824. 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: Gift of Marlene, Paul and John Herring.
How was it made?
Oil on wood.
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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Scored on colour, shape, era and scale, the same way the gallery hangs them.