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Student at a Table by Candlelight

Salomon Savery, 1642/65

Student at a Table by Candlelight by Salomon Savery
Student at a Table by Candlelight by Salomon Savery, 13 cm × 14 cm
1.70 m
Both at true scale.

13 cm × 14 cm

Smaller than your phone. You would need 12 of them to reach a person's height.

Against things you know the size of

This work 14 cm Phone 15 cm A4 sheet 30 cm Person 1.7 m Doorway 2.03 m
Height
14 cm
Width
13 cm
Medium
Etching on paper
Kind
Print
Made in
Netherlands
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
Image: 14.3 × 13 cm (5 11/16 × 5 1/8 in.)
Credit
The Charles Deering Collection

Ask this work

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

How big is it?
13 cm × 14 cm. Smaller than your phone. Measured by the museum.
When was it made, and when is it everyone’s?
Made 1642/65. It is in the public domain, and The Art Institute of Chicago publishes it for open use.
Whose is it?
Everyone’s to see. It is held by The Art Institute of Chicago: The Charles Deering Collection.
How was it made?
Etching on paper, made in Netherlands.
Who speaks for it?
Its record at The Art Institute of Chicago. Measured by the museum. This gallery adds nothing it cannot cite.

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