La Balancoire, by Jean-Baptiste Joseph Pater

An image of La Balançoire (The Swing). Pater, Jean-Baptiste Joseph (French, 1695-1736). Oil on canvas, height 46.3 cm, width 56.5 cm. Acquisition Credit: From the Perceval Fund with contributions from the National Art Collections Fund and the Victoria and Albert Museum, Grant-in-Aid.

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La Balançoire (The Swing). Pater, Jean-Baptiste Joseph (French, 1695-1736). Oil on canvas, height 46.3 cm, width 56.5 cm. Acquisition Credit: From the Perceval Fund with contributions from the National Art Collections Fund and the Victoria and Albert Museum, Grant-in-Aid.

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Accession Number: PD.22-1977
Photograph copyright © The Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge.
Aperture: f/11.0
Focal length: 120
Camera: Hasselblad H3DII-31
Photographer name: Andrew Norman
Image height: 845 pixels
Image width: 1024 pixels
Processed with: Adobe Photoshop Lightroom 5.0 (Windows)
Filesize: 150.00kB
Exposure time: 1/180
ISO Speed: 100
Fnumber: 11/1
Captured: 2014:12:01 14:20:23

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