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Studies of Female Nudes
Gaetano Gandolfi, 1785/1790
1.70 m
31 cm × 43 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
- 43 cm
- Width
- 31 cm
- Medium
- oiled charcoal and stumping, heightened with white gouache on gray-brown laid paper
- Kind
- Drawing
- Where the measurement comes from
- Measured by the museum. The dimension is the one recorded by the institution that holds the work.
- Credit
- Wolfgang Ratjen Collection, Patrons' Permanent Fund
Ask this work
Five questions, answered from its own record. What is AGAI?
- How big is it?
- 31 cm × 43 cm. About the size of an open laptop. Measured by the museum.
- When was it made, and when is it everyone’s?
- Made 1785/1790. It is in the public domain, and National Gallery of Art publishes it for open use.
- Whose is it?
- Everyone’s to see. It is held by National Gallery of Art: Wolfgang Ratjen Collection, Patrons' Permanent Fund.
- How was it made?
- Oiled charcoal and stumping, heightened with white gouache on gray-brown laid paper.
- Who speaks for it?
- Its record at National Gallery of Art. Measured by the museum. This gallery adds nothing it cannot cite.
Its colours
Read from the picture. Copy a colour, keep the palette, or furnish a room in it. My palettes
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Hangs well beside
Scored on colour, shape, era and scale, the same way the gallery hangs them.
