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La Salle Meets a War Party of Cenis Indians on a Texas Prairie. April 25, 1686

George Catlin, 1847/1848

57 cm × 42 cm

About the size of a bathroom mirror. You would need 3 of them to reach a person's height.

Against things you know the size of

Height: 42 cm
Width: 57 cm
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.
Why this differs from the record: Recorded as 57 cm × 38 cm. Hung to match the photograph.
Credit: Paul Mellon Collection

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

How big is it?: 57 cm × 42 cm. About the size of a bathroom mirror. Measured by the museum.
When was it made, and when is it everyone’s?: Made 1847/1848. 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: Paul Mellon Collection.
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.

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.