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The Angel Appearing to the Centurion Cornelius

attributed to Cornelis Cornelisz van Haarlem, late 1590s

1.70 m

Both at true scale.

15 cm × 17 cm

About the size of your phone. You would need 10 of them to reach a person's height.

Against things you know the size of

Height: 17 cm
Width: 15 cm
Medium: pen and black ink with gray wash and white heightening on paper prepared with diluted red chalk
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: Gift of H. Shickman Gallery

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

How big is it?: 15 cm × 17 cm. About the size of your phone. Measured by the museum.
When was it made, and when is it everyone’s?: Made late 1590s. 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: Gift of H. Shickman Gallery.
How was it made?: Pen and black ink with gray wash and white heightening on paper prepared with diluted red chalk.
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.