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Study of the Virgin for an Annunciation

Andrea Meldolla, called Schiavone, 1550s

1.70 m

Both at true scale.

13 cm × 16 cm

About the size of your phone. You would need 11 of them to reach a person's height.

Against things you know the size of

Height: 16 cm
Width: 13 cm
Medium: brush with brown wash and white heightening over red chalk on laid paper; laid down on an old mount
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: Purchased as the Gift of Ann and Matthew Nimetz

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

How big is it?: 13 cm × 16 cm. About the size of your phone. Measured by the museum.
When was it made, and when is it everyone’s?: Made 1550s. 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: Purchased as the Gift of Ann and Matthew Nimetz.
How was it made?: Brush with brown wash and white heightening over red chalk on laid paper; laid down on an old mount.
Who speaks for it?: Its record at National Gallery of Art. Measured by the museum. This gallery adds nothing it cannot cite.

This work is in the reference only. The gallery hangs a selection of the collection at 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.