The old pancake seller, by Jan Steen

An image of The old pancake seller. Steen, Jan (Dutch, 1625/6-1679). Oil on canvas, height 40.6 cm, width 31.4 cm. circa 1668.

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The old pancake seller. Steen, Jan (Dutch, 1625/6-1679). Oil on canvas, height 40.6 cm, width 31.4 cm. circa 1668.

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Accession Number: 76
Photograph copyright © The Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge.
Aperture: f/19.0
Focal length: 120
Camera: Hasselblad H4D-31
Photographer name: Andrew Norman
Image height: 1025 pixels
Image width: 794 pixels
Processed with: Adobe Photoshop Lightroom 5.0 (Windows)
Filesize: 621.88kB
Exposure time: 1/125
ISO Speed: 100
Fnumber: 19/1
Captured: 2014:02:12 16:05:08

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17th Century Baroque baskets bread basket breeches cape caps clothes clothing costume domestic dress drinker drinking Dutch Dutch Golden Age fashion female figures Fitz_PDP food food and drink genre genre scenes hats interior Jan Steen jolity lattice windows leisure merrymaking oil on canvas painting pancake seller pancakes peasants recreation ruff rustic trousers window windows woman

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