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Marie Louise Petit at the Age of 105, with Her Young Nurse

Louis de Carrogis, called Carmontelle, 1765

30 cm × 29 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: 29 cm
Width: 30 cm
Medium: watercolor over black and red chalk, heightened with white chalk on cream laid paper (cut across the top and reattached), laid down
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: Purchased as the Gift of Ivan and Winifred Phillips in Memory of Neil Phillips

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

How big is it?: 30 cm × 29 cm. About the size of a sheet of A4. Measured by the museum.
When was it made, and when is it everyone’s?: Made 1765. 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: Purchased as the Gift of Ivan and Winifred Phillips in Memory of Neil Phillips.
How was it made?: Watercolor over black and red chalk, heightened with white chalk on cream laid paper (cut across the top and reattached), laid down.
Who speaks for it?: Its record at National Gallery of Art. Measured by the museum. This gallery adds nothing it cannot cite.

The gallery's walk hangs a selection. This work can hang in a room of its own, with five works that hang well beside it, at their real size.

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.