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Pensionnaires de l’Académie allants de Rome à Naples par le procaccio et passants pendant la nuit la forest de fondi (Pensionnaires from the French Academy Going from Rome to Naples by Carriage and Passing through a Forest in Fondi during the Night)

Jean-Claude-Richard, Abbé de Saint-Non, after Gabriel François Doyen, c. 1766-1772

1.70 m

Both at true scale.

12 cm × 17 cm

About the size of your phone. You would need 10 of them to reach a person's height.

Against things you know the size of

Height: 17 cm
Width: 12 cm
Medium: aquatint and etching printed in brown on laid paper
Kind: Print
Where the measurement comes from: Measured by the museum. The dimension is the one recorded by the institution that holds the work.
Credit: Pepita Milmore Memorial Fund

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

How big is it?: 12 cm × 17 cm. About the size of your phone. Measured by the museum.
When was it made, and when is it everyone’s?: Made c. 1766-1772. 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: Pepita Milmore Memorial Fund.
How was it made?: Aquatint and etching printed in brown on laid paper.
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.