A Girl's Head, by Thomas Couture

An image of A Girl's Head. Couture, Thomas (French, 1815-1879). Oil on canvas, height 39.7cm, width 32.4cm, 19th Century.

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A Girl's Head. Couture, Thomas (French, 1815-1879). Oil on canvas, height 39.7cm, width 32.4cm, 19th Century.

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Accession Number: 2512
Photograph copyright © The Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge.
Aperture: f/16.0
Focal length: 80
Camera: Hasselblad H3DII-31
Photographer name: Andrew Norman
Image height: 1025 pixels
Image width: 821 pixels
Processed with: Adobe Photoshop Lightroom 5.0 (Windows)
Filesize: 1.08MB
Exposure time: 1/60
ISO Speed: 200
Fnumber: 16/1
Captured: 2010:11:07 23:37:41

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19th Century bows brunette child children Couture direct gaze female Fitz_PDP French gaze girls hair hairband hairstyle heads oil on canvas painting portraits pretty Realism Realist ribbon Thomas Couture young youth youthful

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