Study for the head of a young Arab, by Isidore Pils

An image of Study for the head of a young Arab. Pils, Isidore Alexandre Augustin (French, 1813/15-1875). Oil on canvas, height 33 cm, width 24 cm, circa 1860-1862. Production Note: This is a study for one of the figures in Pils' painting La reception des chefs arabes par Napoléon III, painted for Napoleon III to commemorate his visit to Algeria with Empress Eugénie.

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Study for the head of a young Arab. Pils, Isidore Alexandre Augustin (French, 1813/15-1875). Oil on canvas, height 33 cm, width 24 cm, circa 1860-1862. Production Note: This is a study for one of the figures in Pils' painting La reception des chefs arabes par Napoléon III, painted for Napoleon III to commemorate his visit to Algeria with Empress Eugénie.

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Accession Number: PD.54-1998
Photograph copyright © The Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge.
Aperture: f/11.0
Focal length: 120
Camera: Hasselblad H3DII-31
Photographer name: Andrew Norman
Image height: 1025 pixels
Image width: 762 pixels
Processed with: Adobe Photoshop Lightroom 5.0 (Windows)
Filesize: 891.75kB
Exposure time: 1/125
ISO Speed: 100
Fnumber: 11/1
Captured: 2014:12:15 10:17:42

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