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Démolitions pour le percement du Boulevard Saint-Germain (Demolitions for the Construction of the Boulevard St. Germain, Paris)

Maxime Lalanne, 1862

24 cm × 32 cm

About the size of an open laptop. You would need 5 of them to reach a person's height.

Against things you know the size of

Height: 32 cm
Width: 24 cm
Medium: etching on wove 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: Gift of Faya Causey in memory of Philip Conisbee

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

How big is it?: 24 cm × 32 cm. About the size of an open laptop. Measured by the museum.
When was it made, and when is it everyone’s?: Made 1862. 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 Faya Causey in memory of Philip Conisbee.
How was it made?: Etching on wove 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.