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The Letter, or The Spanish Conversation

Jean-Honoré Fragonard, c. 1778

29 cm × 40 cm

About the size of an open laptop. You would need 4 of them to reach a person's height.

Against things you know the size of

Height: 40 cm
Width: 29 cm
Medium: Brush and brown ink and brush and brown wash, with graphite, on ivory laid paper
Kind: Drawing and Watercolor
Made in: France
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: 39.9 × 29 cm (15 3/4 × 11 7/16 in.)
Credit: Margaret Day Blake Collection

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

How big is it?: 29 cm × 40 cm. About the size of an open laptop. Measured by the museum.
When was it made, and when is it everyone’s?: Made c. 1778. 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: Margaret Day Blake Collection.
How was it made?: Brush and brown ink and brush and brown wash, with graphite, on ivory laid paper, made in France.
Who speaks for it?: Its record at The Art Institute of Chicago. 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.