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Coriolanus Taking Leave of his Family
Anne-Louis Girodet de Roussy-Trioson, 1786
1.70 m
3.71 m × 2.9 m
A storey and a half of a house. Stood on end it is 2.2 people tall.
Against things you know the size of
- Height
- 2.9 m
- Width
- 3.71 m
- Medium
- oil on canvas
- 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
- New Century Fund, Gift of Edwin L. Cox – Ed Cox Foundation, and Chester Dale Fund
Ask this work
Five questions, answered from its own record. What is AGAI?
- How big is it?
- 3.71 m × 2.9 m. A storey and a half of a house. Measured by the museum.
- When was it made, and when is it everyone’s?
- Made 1786. 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: New Century Fund, Gift of Edwin L. Cox – Ed Cox Foundation, and Chester Dale Fund.
- How was it made?
- Oil on canvas.
- 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
Stand next to it in the gallery Record at National Gallery of Art
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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.
