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Taking a Bow, plate eight from Yvette Guilbert

Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec, 1898, printed 1930

22 cm × 30 cm

About the size of a sheet of A4. You would need 6 of them to reach a person's height.

Against things you know the size of

Height: 30 cm
Width: 22 cm
Medium: Lithograph (crayon with scraper) in olive-green on cream wove paper hinged at top corners to gray-brown wove paper
Kind: Print
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: Image: 29.6 × 24.2 cm (11 11/16 × 9 9/16 in.)
Why this differs from the record: Recorded as 24 cm × 30 cm. Hung to match the photograph.
Credit: Gift of Walter S. Brewster

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

How big is it?: 22 cm × 30 cm. About the size of a sheet of A4. Measured by the museum.
When was it made, and when is it everyone’s?: Made 1898, printed 1930. 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: Gift of Walter S. Brewster.
How was it made?: Lithograph (crayon with scraper) in olive-green on cream wove paper hinged at top corners to gray-brown wove 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.