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Portrait of a Woman
Etienne Bouchardy, 1838
1.70 m
11 cm × 12 cm
Smaller than your phone. You would need 14 of them to reach a person's height.
Against things you know the size of
- Height
- 12 cm
- Width
- 11 cm
- Medium
- Ivory
- Kind
- Miniatures
- Where the measurement comes from
- Measured by the museum. The dimension is the one recorded by the institution that holds the work.
- As the museum records it
- 4 7/8 x 4 1/8 in. (125 x 104 mm)
- Credit
- Bequest of Margaret Crane Hurlbut, 1933
Ask this work
Five questions, answered from its own record. What is AGAI?
- How big is it?
- 11 cm × 12 cm. Smaller than your phone. Measured by the museum.
- When was it made, and when is it everyone’s?
- Made 1838. It is in the public domain, and The Metropolitan Museum of Art publishes it for open use.
- Whose is it?
- Everyone’s to see. It is held by The Metropolitan Museum of Art: Bequest of Margaret Crane Hurlbut, 1933.
- How was it made?
- Ivory.
- Who speaks for it?
- Its record at The Metropolitan Museum 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
Stand next to it in the gallery Record at The Metropolitan Museum 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.
