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The Death of Socrates

Jacques-Louis David, 1787

1.96 m × 1.29 m

Almost as tall as a doorway. It comes to about the height of the person standing beside it.

Against things you know the size of

Height: 1.29 m
Width: 1.96 m
Medium: Oil on canvas
Kind: Paintings
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: 51 x 77 1/4 in. (129.5 x 196.2 cm)
Credit: Catharine Lorillard Wolfe Collection, Wolfe Fund, 1931

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

How big is it?: 1.96 m × 1.29 m. Almost as tall as a doorway. Measured by the museum.
When was it made, and when is it everyone’s?: Made 1787. 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: Catharine Lorillard Wolfe Collection, Wolfe Fund, 1931.
How was it made?: Oil on canvas.
Who speaks for it?: Its record at The Metropolitan Museum 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.