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La Liseuse, by Alfred Stevens

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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

Key words

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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