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A Prophet Addressed by an Angel

Sebastiano del Piombo, 1517/1519

25 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: 25 cm
Medium: black chalk with gray and brown wash above four stylus arcs at bottom right, heightened with white and squared with red chalk on blue paper, laid down on late eighteenth/early nineteenth-century mount
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 Robert H. and Clarice Smith

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

How big is it?: 25 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 1517/1519. 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 Robert H. and Clarice Smith.
How was it made?: Black chalk with gray and brown wash above four stylus arcs at bottom right, heightened with white and squared with red chalk on blue paper, laid down on late eighteenth/early nineteenth-century mount.
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.