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Grand Théâtre des Arts ou Temple d'Apollon, avec une Colonne Triomphâle au milieu de la Place principale, erigée au Commerce, aux Sciences, aux Arts & aux Vertus républicaines (Grand Theater of the Arts or Temple of Apollo, with a Victory Column in the Middle of the Main Square, Erected to Commerce, the Sciences, the Arts, and Republican Virtues)

François Joseph Bélanger, 1795

51 cm × 34 cm

About the size of a bathroom mirror. You would need 3 of them to reach a person's height.

Against things you know the size of

Height: 34 cm
Width: 51 cm
Medium: etching and aquatint printed in brown on laid paper
Kind: Print
Where the measurement comes from: Measured by the museum. The dimension is the one recorded by the institution that holds the work.
Credit: Pepita Milmore Memorial Fund

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

How big is it?: 51 cm × 34 cm. About the size of a bathroom mirror. Measured by the museum.
When was it made, and when is it everyone’s?: Made 1795. 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: Pepita Milmore Memorial Fund.
How was it made?: Etching and aquatint printed in brown on laid paper.
Who speaks for it?: Its record at National Gallery of Art. Measured by the museum. This gallery adds nothing it cannot cite.

This work is in the reference only. The gallery hangs a selection of the collection at 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.