A Bacchanalian feast, by Johann Liss

An image of A Bacchanalian feast. Liss, Johann (Pan) (German, c.1590/97-1627/31). Oil on panel, height, panel (wood), 34.2 cm, width, panel (wood), 27.3 cm, circa 1617. From the Cunliffe Fund with contributions from the National Art Collections Fund and the Victoria and Albert Museum Grant-in-Aid.

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A Bacchanalian feast. Liss, Johann (Pan) (German, c.1590/97-1627/31). Oil on panel, height, panel (wood), 34.2 cm, width, panel (wood), 27.3 cm, circa 1617. From the Cunliffe 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.100-1978
Photograph copyright © The Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge.
Aperture: f/22.0
Focal length: 120
Camera: Hasselblad H3DII-31
Photographer name: Andrew Norman
Image height: 1025 pixels
Image width: 825 pixels
Processed with: Adobe Photoshop Lightroom 5.0 (Windows)
Filesize: 813.78kB
Exposure time: 1/125
ISO Speed: 100
Fnumber: 22/1
Captured: 2013:11:25 15:00:48

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