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design by Lodewijck van Schoor; cartoon by Lodewijck van Schoor (figures) and Pieter Spierincx (background); woven in Brussels in an undetermined workshop, c. 1675/1699
4.97 m × 3.41 m
Longer than a car. Stood on end it is 2.9 people tall.
Against things you know the size of
- Height
- 3.41 m
- Width
- 4.97 m
- Medium
- tapestry: undyed wool warp, dyed wool and silk weft
- 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
- Gift of Lewis Einstein
Ask this work
Five questions, answered from its own record. What is AGAI?
- How big is it?
- 4.97 m × 3.41 m. Longer than a car. Measured by the museum.
- When was it made, and when is it everyone’s?
- Made c. 1675/1699. 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 Lewis Einstein.
- How was it made?
- Tapestry: undyed wool warp, dyed wool and silk weft.
- 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.
