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File:Beethoven.jpg

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Title Portrait of Ludwig van Beethoven when composing the Missa Solemnis
Date 1820
Medium oil on canvas
Dimensions 62 × 50 cm (24.4 × 19.7 in)
Beethoven-Haus
Bonn
Accession number 300100500400
Source/Photographer http://www.fraunhofer.de/archiv/presseinfos/pflege.zv.fhg.de/german/press/pi/pi2002/08/md_fo6a.html
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Image title
  • Stieler, Joseph Karl: Beethoven mit der Missa solemnisÖlgemälde, 1819
Width 915 px
Height 1,100 px
Bits per component
  • 8
  • 8
  • 8
Pixel composition RGB
Orientation Normal
Number of components 3
Horizontal resolution 300 dpi
Vertical resolution 300 dpi
Software used Adobe Photoshop CS5 Windows
File change date and time 13:44, 15 December 2010
Exif version 2.21
Colour space Uncalibrated
Date and time of digitizing 08:30, 15 December 2010
Date metadata was last modified 08:44, 15 December 2010
Copyright status Public domain
Unique ID of original document xmp.did:C706DC4A7B08E011B62FEA0E871999EA
IIM version 2

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