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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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