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Jean René Gauguin

Paul Gauguin, 1881

1.70 m

Both at true scale.

12 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: 12 cm
Medium: Black fabricated chalk, red chalk, brush and brown wash, with pen and brown ink, on cream wove paper, with later additions in graphite
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: 11.9 × 12.2 cm (4 11/16 × 4 13/16 in.)
Credit: H. Karl and Nancy von Maltitz Endowment

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

How big is it?: 12 cm × 12 cm. Smaller than your phone. Measured by the museum.
When was it made, and when is it everyone’s?: Made 1881. 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: H. Karl and Nancy von Maltitz Endowment.
How was it made?: Black fabricated chalk, red chalk, brush and brown wash, with pen and brown ink, on cream wove paper, with later additions in graphite, 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.