PRICING PORTRAITS BY SIZE.

PRICING PORTRAITS BY SIZE. I posted here about how Rubens said that tapestries were priced by size while pictures were priced “according to their excellence, their subject, and number of figures.” When I made the post, I was amused by the idea of pricing art works by size. The Metropolitan Museum of Art Bulletin (Spring 2011) has an article by Margaret Shelley in which she says that in 18th century Europe it was “customary to price portraits according to their dimensions….”