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The Four Cardinal Virtues: Temperance

Netherlandish 16th Century, c. 1550/1600

66 cm × 2.07 m

Taller than a doorway. Stood on end it is 1.2 people tall.

Against things you know the size of

Height: 2.07 m
Width: 66 cm
Medium: undyed wool warp, dyed wool and dyed silk
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: Ailsa Mellon Bruce Collection

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

How big is it?: 66 cm × 2.07 m. Taller than a doorway. Measured by the museum.
When was it made, and when is it everyone’s?: Made c. 1550/1600. 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: Ailsa Mellon Bruce Collection.
How was it made?: Undyed wool warp, dyed wool and dyed silk.
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.