La Liseuse, by Alfred Stevens

An image of La Liseuse. (The Reader). Stevens, Alfred Emile Leopold Joseph Victor (Belgian, 1823-1906). Oil on canvas, height 66.1 cm, width 55.3 cm.

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La Liseuse. (The Reader). Stevens, Alfred Emile Leopold Joseph Victor (Belgian, 1823-1906). Oil on canvas, height 66.1 cm, width 55.3 cm.

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Accession Number: 1527
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: 832 pixels
Processed with: Adobe Photoshop Lightroom 5.0 (Windows)
Filesize: 681.03kB
Exposure time: 1/180
ISO Speed: 100
Fnumber: 11/1
Captured: 2014:07:23 09:21:34

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19th Century 20th Century Alfred Stevens Belgian books British brunette clothes clothing concentrating concentration costume dress elegant English fashion fashionable female Fitz_PDP full length gown hair hairstyle interior lace lady lady of leisure leisure oil on canvas painting passing time pastimes portraits reader reading reading a book recreation seated sitter sitting society Stevens white dress woman young

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