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New evidence concerning the original version of Robert Delaunay’s ‘The runners’
12/2024 | 1461 | 166
Pages: 1230–37
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Author:
Greeley, Anne (Greeley, Anne)
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1. The runners, by Robert Delaunay. 1924. Oil on canvas, 114 by 146 cm. (Musée d’art moderne de Troyes; photograph Olivier Frajman).
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2. The runners, by Robert Delaunay. (From the catalogue of the exhibition Kunst und Sport, Düsseldorf 1926; Harry Ransom Center, University of Texas at Austin, Book Collection).
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3. The runners, by Robert Delaunay. 1924–25. Oil on canvas, 153 by 203 cm. (Fridart Foundation; photograph Courtauld Institute, London).
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4. The runners, by Robert Delaunay. 1930. Oil on canvas, 112.8 by 145.5 cm. (Private collection).
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5. The version of The runners exhibited at the Salon des Indépendants, Paris, 1925. (From L’Art vivant, 20th March 1925; Bibliothèque nationale de France, département Sciences et techniques, FOL-V-5897).
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6. Record I, by Robert Delaunay. (From the catalogue of the exhibition Französische Kunst der Gegenwart, Vienna, 1926; Library, National Gallery of Art, Washington, David K.E. Bruce Fund).
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7. The runners, by Robert Delaunay. 1926. Oil on canvas, 171 by 190 cm. (Private collection; photograph akg-images).
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8. The runners, by Robert Delaunay. 1926. Oil on canvas, 65 by 81 cm. (Private collection).
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9. Installation view of the exhibition Kunst und Sport in Düsseldorf, 1926. Photograph by Julius Söhn, Düsseldorf. (Harry Ransom Center, University of Texas at Austin; Carlton Lake Collection of French Manuscripts, 204.8).
Article
Artemisia Gentileschi’s ‘Susanna and the elders’ painted for Henrietta Maria
10/2023 | 1447 | 165
Pages: 1053–73
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Author:
Izat, Adelaide (Izat, Adelaide)
Author:
Munz, Niko (Munz, Niko)
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1. The painting illustrated in Fig.3, before conservation treatment and prior to structural treatment to remove non-original additions.
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10. Infra-red reflectography of Fig.1, showing former non-original canvas extension.
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11. Detail of Fig.10, showing a pinnacle or water-jet and possible part of a wall.
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12. Detail of Fig.10, showing a scroll-like form above the satyr’s head.
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13. Birth of St John the Baptist, by Artemisia Gentileschi. c.1635. Oil on canvas, 184 by 258 cm. (© NPL - DeA Picture Library; G. Dagli Orti; Bridgeman Images; Museo del Prado, Madrid).
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14. David and Goliath, by Orazio Gentileschi. c.1610–12. Oil on canvas, 173 by 142 cm. (Palazzo Spada, Rome; Bridgeman Images).
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15–17: Details of Fig.8 outlined in orange, overlaid with the corresponding lines in green from Fig.3 in three positions: (Fig.15) showing the match around the shoulder and back with the orange dots following where the Royal Collection pentiment lines up with Susanna’s back in the Burghley House painting; (Fig.16) shifted to show the match of the shoulder, arm and hand; and (Fig.17) lining up the Royal Collection knee tracing over the visible pentiment (shown with green dashed lines) of Susanna’s knee in the Burghley House painting.
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18. Detail of Fig.19 outlined in blue overlaid with a tracing in orange from Fig.3.
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19. St Catherine of Alexandria, by Artemisia Gentileschi. c.1627–30?. Oil on canvas, 90 by 75.4 cm. (Nationalmuseum, Stockholm; photograph © Christie’s Images; Bridgeman Images).
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2. Self-portrait as the Allegory of Painting, by Artemisia Gentileschi. c.1638–39?. Oil on canvas, 96.8 by 75.2 cm. (© His Majesty King Charles III, 2023; Royal Collection Trust).
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20. Detail of Fig.13, showing the midwife outlined in green, overlaid with an inverted tracing in orange of the right-hand elder in Fig.3.
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21. Detail of Fig.3, showing Susanna’s raised foot with pentiment and early drawing line visible in the white drapery.
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22. Bathsheba at her bath, attributed to Artemisia Gentileschi. c.1640– 45. Oil on canvas, 288 by 228 cm. (Private collection).
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23. Detail of a design for a painted vertical panel with grotesque ornament, by Inigo Jones, showing Henrietta Maria’s cipher. 1630s. Pen, ink and wash on paper. (Ashmolean Museum, Oxford).
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24. Design for a chimneypiece and overmantel for the Queen’s House, Greenwich, by Inigo Jones. c.1637. Pen, ink and wash on paper, 19.3 by 29.5 cm. (Royal Institute of British Architects, London).
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25. Detail of Fig.10, showing carbon-based markings to denote positioning.
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26. X-radiograph of Fig.7, showing the hooded reserve left for the elders (showing dark) against the sky, similar in technique and handling to the early reserve left for the elders and visible in Fig.9.
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27. X-radiograph of Fig.14, showing the broad sweeping contour around the shoulder to lay in David’s form and echoing in style and technique the preliminary placing of Susanna’s outline as seen in Fig.9.
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28. Detail of Fig.13, showing the grid-like craquelure resulting from the relatively open weave of the canvas substrate.
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29. Detail of Fig.3, showing the wider craquelure resulting from the finer-woven canvas.
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3. Susanna and the elders, by Artemisia Gentileschi. 1638–39. Oil on canvas, 188.9 by 143.2 cm. (after structural treatment to remove non-original additions). (© His Majesty King Charles III, 2023; Royal Collection Trust).
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30. Paint cross section of Fig.3, from the area to the right of Susanna’s lower foot.
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31. Paint cross section of Fig.3, taken from the right edge in the elder’s green brocade .
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32. Paint cross section of Fig.3, from the left side of the sky; the warm red preparatory layer is absent from this sample but it shows the lower pale brown preliminary layer that was used under much of the sky area, followed by a bright blue layer containing indigo and lead white. The discoloured smalt layer lies above this.
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33. Paint cross section of Fig.3, from the sky area above the elder’s head.
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34. Paint cross section of Fig.3, taken from a shadow area of Susanna’s hip with some reflected light, showing the thick preparatory layer containing red ochre, followed by the darker brown underpaint for the flesh tones, and finally the bright, densely encrusted aggregates of lead-tin-antinomy yellow near the top.
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4. Detail of the reverse of Fig.3, showing ‘CR’ brand.
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5. The Queen’s Bedchamber, Kensington Palace, by Richard Cattermole. c.1818. Watercolour and bodycolour on paper, 20.2 by 26.3 cm. (© His Majesty King Charles III, 2023; Royal Collection Trust).
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6. Photograph of the painting illustrated in Fig.3, from the inventory ‘Pictures in the Royal Collections’, by Richard Redgrave (29th May 1862). (© His Majesty King Charles III, 2023; Royal Library, Royal Collection Trust).
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7. Susanna and the elders, by Artemisia Gentileschi. 1610. Oil on canvas, 170 by 119 cm. (Schloss Weissenstein, Pommersfelden; Scala, Florence).
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8. Susanna and the elders, by Artemisia Gentileschi. 1622. Oil on canvas, 162.5 by 121.9 cm. (Burghley House, Stamford; Bridgeman Images).
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9. X-radiography of Fig.3.
Article
Below the surface of Braque's 'Pitcher, candlestick and black fish'
09/2023 | 1446 | 165
Pages: 968-75
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Author:
Dijkema, Desirae (Dijkema, Desirae)
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1. Pitcher, candlestick, and black fish (Vase et poisson noir) (after treatment), by Georges Braque. 1943. Oil on canvas, 64.6 by 48.6 cm. (© Artists Rights Society, NY and DACS, London; Menil Collection, Houston).
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10. L’homme au foulard, by Georges Braque. 1929. Oil on canvas, 46 by 38 cm. (Current location unknown; from N. Worms de Romilly: Catalogue de l’oeuvre de Georges Braque, ed. N. Mangin, Paris 1959, III).
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11. Reflected infra-red image of the reverse of Fig.1, after lining removal; the image has been flipped so that the composition is seen as it would be when viewed from the front.
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12. Digital estimation of the third underlying composition of Fig.1.
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13. Detail of Fig.1, showing the lower-right corner.
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14. Detail of Fig.1, showing the lower-right corner and imaged under magnification.
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2. Detail of Fig.1, showing the lower-right quadrant.
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3. Reflected infra-red image of Fig.1. (Menil Collection, Houston).
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4. Transmitted infra-red image of Fig.1. (Menil Collection, Houston).
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5. Detail of Fig.4, showing the eyes.
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6. Woman at an easel (green screen), by Georges Braque. 1936. Oil on canvas, 92 by 73 cm. (© Artists Rights Society, NY and DACS, London; Art Institute of Chicago).
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7. Digital estimation of the composition immediately underlying Fig.1. (Menil Collection, Houston).
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8. Woman with a mandolin, by Georges Braque. 1937. Oil on canvas, 130.2 by 97.2 cm. (© Artists Rights Society, NY and DACS, London; Museum of Modern Art, New York).
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9. Femme, by Georges Braque. 1936. Oil on canvas, 65 by 54 cm. (Current location unknown; from N. Worms de Romilly: Catalogue de l’oeuvre de Georges Braque, ed. N. Mangin, Paris 1959).
Article
Picasso’s ‘Faun musician’: revealing the making, contextualising the meaning
03/2022 | 1428 | 164
Pages: 246-253
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Author:
Andral, Jean-Louis (Andral, Jean-Louis)
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Casadio, Francesca (Casadio, Francesca)
Author:
Dahm, Kristi (Dahm, Kristi)
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1. Detail of Fig.3.
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10. Infra-red reflectogram (IRR) composite image of Fig.3 (1.5-1.73 μm).
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11. Fig.10 with the black ink of the faun removed digitally, showing a vase of flowers beneath.
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12. Head, 6 June, 1947, by Pablo Picasso. 1947. Coloured crayon on the page opposite the colophon of the book Cinq sonnets de Pétrarque / avec une eau-forte de / Picasso / et les explications du traducteur, each page 33.4 by 25.7 cm. (Private collection).
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2. Photomicrograph of The faun musician (bottom), showing orange and pink media from an earlier composition visible through losses in the uppermost black ink layer.
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3. The faun musician, by Pablo Picasso. 7th–11th June 1947. Brush and black ink and gouache on cream wove paper, folded, 32.7 by 50.2 cm. (Art Institute of Chicago; © 2020 Estate of Pablo Picasso; DACS, London, 2022).
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4. Head of a woman – Françoise, by Pablo Picasso. 1945. Etching, aquatint and engraving on Arches wove paper, plate 13.9 by 11.9 cm., sheet (irreg.) 32 by 24.8 cm. (From Cinq Sonnets de Pétrarque, plate, fol.6.; Museum of Modern Art, New York; Scala; © 2020 Estate of Pablo Picasso; DACS, London, 2022).
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5. Vase with foliage and three sea urchins, by Pablo Picasso. 21st October 1946. Oleoresinous enamel paint and charcoal on paper mounted on reused canvas, 46 by 38 cm. (Musée Picasso, Antibes; © imageArt; photograph Claude Germain; © Succession Picasso 2022; DACS, London, 2022).
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6. The faun musician, by Pablo Picasso, open folio as it originally appeared as a frontispiece opposite the title page to Cinq Sonnets de Pétrarque. (© 2020 Estate of Pablo Picasso; DACS, London, 2022).
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7. Detail of a photograph by Michel Sima, showing ceramics and drawings by Pablo Picasso at the Atelier Madoura, Vallauris. 1948. (© Michel Sima Héritiers; Bridgeman Images).
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8. MA-XRF composite map of Fig.3, showing Prussian blue crayon (blue), gouache media containing titanium white (red) and cerulean blue gouache (green).
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9. Raking-light image of the verso of Fig.3, flipped horizontally.
Article
The restoration of ‘Young woman reading a letter at an open window’ by Johannes Vermeer: final report
10/2021 | 1423 | 163
Pages: 916-925
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Author:
Neidhardt, Uta (Neidhardt, Uta)
Author:
Schölzel, Christoph (Schölzel, Christoph)
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Illustrations
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1. Young woman reading a letter at an open window, by Johannes Vermeer. c.1657–59. Oil on canvas, 83 by 64.5 cm. Photographed after restoration, 2021. (Staatliche Kunstsammlungen, Gemäldegalerie Alte Meister, Dresden; photograph Wolfgang Kreische).
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10. Interior of the Oude Kerk in Delft, by Gerard Houckgeest. 1654. Oil on panel, 49 by 41 cm. (Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam; photograph Frans Pegt).
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12. A mother’s duty, by Pieter de Hooch. c.1660–61. Oil on canvas, 52.5 by 61 cm. (Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam).
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13. An officer and a standing woman, by Hendrick van der Burch. c.1665. Oil on canvas, 57.8 by 64.1 cm. (Philadelphia Museum of Art).
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2. Young woman standing at a virginal, by Johannes Vermeer. c.1670–72. Oil on canvas, 51.7 by 45.2 cm. (National Gallery, London).
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3. Fig.1, photographed after the removal of overpaint in 2021, showing the edges of the painting (Staatliche Kunstsammlungen, Gemäldegalerie Alte Meister, Dresden; photograph Wolfgang Kreische).
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4. Detail of Fig.3, showing the upper-left corner of the painting.
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5. Detail of Fig.3, showing the lower-right corner of the painting, with the foot of a wine glass.
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6. Detail of Fig.1, showing the painting of Cupid in the background.
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7. A lady writing a letter, with her maid, by Johannes Vermeer. c.1670/72. Oil on canvas, 71.1 by 60.5 cm. (National Gallery of Ireland, Dublin; Bridgeman Images).
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8. Inconcussa fide (Oprecht), by Otto van Veen. 1608. Engraving, 20.2 by 15.1 cm. (From Amorum emblemata, Antwerp 1608, p.28; © Dresden, SLUB/Deutsche Fotothek).
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9. Officer and laughing girl, by Johannes Vermeer. c.1657–60. Oil on canvas, 50.5 by 46 cm. (The Frick Collection, New York; photograph Michael Bodycomb).
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11. The terrace. Delft, c.1660. Oil on canvas, 106.9 by 87.4 cm. (Art Institute of Chicago; Bridgeman Images).
Article
The restoration of ‘Young woman reading a letter at an open window’, by Johannes Vermeer: an interim report
06/2019 | 1395 | 161
Pages: 452-463
related names
Author:
Neidhardt, Uta (Neidhardt, Uta)
Author:
Schölzel, Christoph (Schölzel, Christoph)
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dates:
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Illustrations
Attributed works:
1. Young woman reading a letter at an open window, by Johannes Vermeer, showing the painting before the start of the current conservation work. c.1657–59. Canvas, 83 by 64.5 cm. (Gemäldegalerie Alte Meister, Staatliche Kunstsammlungen Dresden; H.-P. Klut).
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10. Detail of Fig.13, showing Cupid
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11. Above Young woman interrupted at music, by Johannes Vermeer. c.1658–59. Canvas, 39.3 by 44.4 cm. (The Frick Collection, New York).
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12. The music lesson, by Johannes Vermeer. c.1662–63. Canvas, 74 by 64.5 cm. (Royal Collection, © Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II, 2019).
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13. Fig.1, photographed in March 2019 during removal of the overpainting layer. (Gemäldegalerie Alte Meister, Staatliche Kunstsammlungen Dresden; W. Kreische).
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14. A maid asleep, by Johannes Vermeer. c.1656–57. Canvas, 87.6 by 76.5 cm. (Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York).
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15. Portrait of a dead child with three putti, by Jacob van Loo. c.1650– 60. Canvas on panel, 96 by 91.5 cm. (Rijksgebouwendienst, Johan de Witthuis, The Hague).
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2. Cross section in visible light of a sample from the overpainted background of Fig.1: (0) ground layer; (1) imprimitura; (2) original reddish paint layer; (3a and 3b) transparent binder layers; (4a and 4b) overpaint. (Hochschule für Bildende Künste, Dresden; C. Herm).
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3. Cross section under UV-fluorescence of a sample from the overpainted background of Fig.1: (0) ground layer; (1) imprimitura; (2) original reddish paint layer; (3a, 3b) transparent binder layers; (4a) overpaint. (Hochschule für Bildende Künste, Dresden; C. Herm).
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4. X-radiograph image of Fig.1. (Gemäldegalerie Alte Meister, Staatliche Kunstsammlungen Dresden; Fine Arts Museum of San Francisco; W. Kreische).
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5. Fig.1 as it appeared during removal of its varnish. (Gemäldegalerie Alte Meister, Staatliche Kunstsammlungen Dresden; W. Kreische).
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6. Macrophotograph detail of Fig.1, showing Cupid’s eye after removal of the overpainting layer, with craquelure. (Gemäldegalerie Alte Meister, Staatliche Kunstsammlungen Dresden; W. Kreische and C. Schölzel).
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7. Detail of Fig.1, showing Cupid after the partial removal of the overpainting layer. (Gemäldegalerie Alte Meister, Staatliche Kunstsammlungen Dresden; W. Kreische).
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8. Left Young woman standing at a virginal, by Johannes Vermeer. c.1670–72. Canvas, 51.8 by 45.2 cm. (National Gallery, London).
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9. Detail of Fig.8, showing Cupid