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Second View of the Agrigento Countryside

Claude-Louis Châtelet, 1778

35 cm × 24 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: 24 cm
Width: 35 cm
Medium: pen and brown and black ink with watercolor and gray wash over graphite on laid paper, with a partial framing line in brown and gray ink
Kind: Drawing
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 the Charlottesville/Albemarle Foundation for the Encouragement of the Arts in honor of J. Carter Brown for meritorious contribution to the world of arts

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

How big is it?: 35 cm × 24 cm. About the size of an open laptop. Measured by the museum.
When was it made, and when is it everyone’s?: Made 1778. 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 the Charlottesville/Albemarle Foundation for the Encouragement of the Arts in honor of J. Carter Brown for meritorious contribution to the world of arts.
How was it made?: Pen and brown and black ink with watercolor and gray wash over graphite on laid paper, with a partial framing line in brown and gray ink.
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.