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Armchair
French or British 19th Century chairmaker and Gobelins Tapestry Factory after cartoons by Louis Tessier, probably c. 1830/1850
82 cm × 1.1 m
About the size of a cafe table. You would need 2 of them to reach a person's height.
Against things you know the size of
- Height
- 1.1 m
- Width
- 82 cm
- Kind
- Decorative Art
- 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
Ask this work
Five questions, answered from its own record. What is AGAI?
- How big is it?
- 82 cm × 1.1 m. About the size of a cafe table. Measured by the museum.
- When was it made, and when is it everyone’s?
- Made probably c. 1830/1850. 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?
- Decorative Art.
- Who speaks for it?
- Its record at National Gallery of Art. Measured by the museum. This gallery adds nothing it cannot cite.
Its colours
Read from the picture. Copy a colour, keep the palette, or furnish a room in it. My palettes
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.
Hang it in the gallery Record at National Gallery of Art
Four works a week, shown at their real size
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.
