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Young Woman with a Rose

Gilles Demarteau, the Elder after François Boucher, c. 1776

Young Woman with a Rose by Gilles Demarteau, the Elder after François Boucher
Young Woman with a Rose by Gilles Demarteau, the Elder after François Boucher, 22 cm × 31 cm
1.70 m
Both at true scale.

22 cm × 31 cm

About the size of a sheet of A4. You would need 5 of them to reach a person's height.

Against things you know the size of

This work 31 cm Phone 15 cm A4 sheet 30 cm Person 1.7 m Doorway 2.03 m
Height
31 cm
Width
22 cm
Medium
chalk manner printed in green, red, and black on green prepared 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
Widener Collection

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

How big is it?
22 cm × 31 cm. About the size of a sheet of A4. Measured by the museum.
When was it made, and when is it everyone’s?
Made c. 1776. 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: Widener Collection.
How was it made?
Chalk manner printed in green, red, and black on green prepared paper.
Who speaks for it?
Its record at National Gallery of Art. Measured by the museum. This gallery adds nothing it cannot cite.

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Scored on colour, shape, era and scale, the same way the gallery hangs them.