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Book Review
White: The History of a Color Les couleurs au Moyen Âge: Dictionnaire encyclopédique
02/2024 | 1451 | 166
Pages: 211–212
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Jasperse, Jitske (Jasperse, Jitske)
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Les couleurs au Moyen Âge: Dictionnaire encyclopédique By Michel Pastoureau. 360 pp. incl. 32 col. ills. (Éditions Le Léopard d’Or, Paris, 2022), €60. ISBN 978–2–86377–283–6. | :
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White: The History of a Color By Michel Pastoureau, translated by Jody Gladding. 240 pp. incl. 130 col. ills. (Princeton University Press, 2023), £35.00. ISBN 978–0–69124–349–8. | :
Book Review
Imperial Colors: The Roman Portrait Busts of Septimius Severus and Julia Domna
12/2023 | 1449 | 165
Pages: 1365–1366
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Gardner-Dseagu, Christine (Gardner-Dseagu, Christine)
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Imperial Colors: The Roman Portrait Busts of Septimius Severus and Julia Domna By Julie Van Voorhis and Mark Abbe, with Juliet Graver Istrabadi. 216 pp. incl. 136 col. ills. (D. Giles Ltd, Lewes, 2023), £50. ISBN 978–1–913875–27–5. | :
Short Notice
What are Barnett Newman’s reds, yellows and blues?
10/2023 | 1447 | 165
Pages: 1111–1115
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Epley, Bradford A. (Epley, Bradford A.)
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Rogge, Corina E. (Rogge, Corina E.)
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1. Who’s afraid of red, yellow and blue I, by Barnett Newman. 1966. Oil on canvas, 190.5 by 212.9 cm. (© Barnett Newman Foundation, New York; DACS, London; private collection).
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2. Who’s afraid of red, yellow and blue II, by Barnett Newman. 1967. Acrylic on canvas, 304.8 by 259.1 cm. (© Barnett Newman Foundation, New York; DACS, London; Staatsgalerie, Stuttgart).
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3. Who’s afraid of red, yellow and blue III, by Barnett Newman. 1967–68. Oil on canvas, 245 by 543 cm. (© Barnett Newman Foundation, New York; DACS, London; Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam).
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4. Who’s afraid of red, yellow and blue IV, by Barnett Newman. 1969–70. Acrylic on canvas, 274.3 by 604.5 cm. (© Barnett Newman Foundation, New York; DACS, London; Staatliche Museen zu Berlin-Preussischer Kulturbesitz).
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5. Chartres, by Barnett Newman. 1969. Acrylic on canvas, 305 by 289.5 cm. (© Barnett Newman Foundation, New York; DACS, London; Daros Collection, Switzerland).
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6. Colour swatches reproducing the red, blue, and yellow paints in Who’s afraid of red, yellow and blue I, II, IV and Chartres as measured by spectrophotometry. The values in parentheses are the CIEDE2000 values measuring the difference between the colours of Who’s afraid I and each of the other paintings. (Menil Collection, Houston).
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7. Newman at his 1969 exhibition at the Knoedler Gallery, New York. On the wall next to the doorway hangs Who’s afraid I. (© Barnett Newman Foundation, New York; DACS, London).
Exhibition Review
Chroma: Ancient Sculpture in Color
03/2023 | 1440 | 165
Pages: 312-315
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Rumora, Roko (Rumora, Roko)
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Chroma: Ancient Sculpture in Color Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York 5th July 2022–26th March 2023 | :
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6. Reconstruction of the so-called ‘Cuirass-Torso’ from the Athenian Acropolis, Variant B, by Vinzenz Brinkmann and Ulrike Koch- Brinkmann. 2005. Plaster cast, natural pigments in egg tempera and gold foil, 60 by 44 by 25 cm. (Liebieghaus Skulpturensammlung, Frankfurt; exh. Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York).
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8. Reconstruction of a marble finial in the form of a sphinx, by Vinzenz Brinkmann and Ulrike Koch- Brinkmann. 2022. Cast from polymethyl metacrylate, natural pigments in egg tempera, gold foil and copper, 85 by 28 by 57 cm. (Liebieghaus Skulpturensammlung, Frankfurt; exh. Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York).
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9. Installation view of Chroma: Ancient Sculpture in Color at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, 2023, showing the reconstruction of the funerary stele of Phrasikleia, by Vinzenz Brinkmann and Ulrike Koch- Brinkmann. 2010, updated 2019. Polymethyl metacrylate, 200 by 68 by 69 cm. (Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York).
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7. Marble finial in the form of a sphinx. Archaic Greek, c.530 BC. Marble, height (with akroterion) 142.6 cm. (Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York).
Article
Greuze’s greens: ephemeral colours, classical ambitions
03/2023 | 1440 | 165
Pages: 269-279
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Berrie, Barbara H. (Berrie, Barbara H.)
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Delaney, John K. (Delaney, John K.)
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Jackall, Yuriko (Jackall, Yuriko)
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Swicklik, Michael (Swicklik, Michael)
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1. A young woman praying at the altar of love [Votive offering to Cupid], by Jean-Baptiste Greuze. 1767. Oil on canvas. 145.5 by 113 cm. (Wallace Collection, London).
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10. Broken eggs, by Jean-Baptiste Greuze. 1756. Oil on canvas, 73 by 94 cm. (Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York; Bridgeman Images).
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11. (Left) detail of Fig.3, showing the flower held by the shepherdess and (right) a false colour infra-red reflectance image of the same detail (red 1650 nm, green 1350 nm and blue 1000 nm).
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12. Colour wheel, possibly by André Félibien. Etching with hand colouring. (From C.B. [Claude Boutet?], Traité de la peinture en mignature, 2nd edn, The Hague 1708, image published between pp.154–55).
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13. Ange Laurent de la Live de Jully, by Jean-Baptiste Greuze. Probably 1759. Oil on canvas, 117 by 88.5 cm (National Gallery of Art, Washington; photograph taken before treatment).
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14. Detail of Fig.13, showing the chair after the cleaning of the painting in 2014–15, before retouching.
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15. Cross section from the horizontal gilded chair rail in Fig.13.
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16. Composite image showing (clockwise from top left): a post-cleaning, pre-retouching detail of Fig.13; a false-colour hyperspectral image of the same detail; and the XRF maps for the chemical elements potassium (K) and calcium (Ca).
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17. Images of a cross section with visible light (top) and with UV-blue illumination (bottom) taken from the light blue highlight on the back chair cushion of Fig.13.
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2. Filial piety, by Jean-Baptiste Greuze. 1763. Oil on canvas, 115 by 146 cm. (State Hermitage Museum, St Petersburg).
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3. Simplicity, by Jean-Baptiste Greuze. 1759. Oil on canvas, 71.1 by 59.7 cm. (Kimbell Art Museum, Fort Worth).
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4. Young shepherd holding a flower, by Jean-Baptiste Greuze. c.1761. Oil on canvas, 72.5 by 59.5 cm. (Petit Palais, Paris; Bridgeman Images) .
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5. The village betrothal, by Jean-Baptiste Greuze. 1761. Oil on canvas, 92 by 117 cm. (Musée du Louvre, Paris; © RMN-Grand Palais; René-Gabriel Ojeda).
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6. Girl with a dead canary, by Jean-Baptiste Greuze. 1765. Oil on canvas, 53.3 by 46 cm. (National Galleries of Scotland, Edinburgh; Bridgeman Images).
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7. A child with an apple, by Jean-Baptiste Greuze. c.1785. Oil on canvas, 40.6 by 32.1 cm. (National Gallery, London; Bridgeman Images).
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8. Cross section of a paint sample taken from the clump of blue leaves at the bottom-left corner of Fig.1.
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9. Paint sample taken from the clump of blue leaves at the bottom-left corner of Fig.1 and viewed from the surface using reflected (left) and fluorescence (right) microscopy.
Article
The Buccleuch portrait of Sir Nicholas Carew re-examined
02/2023 | 1439 | 165
Pages: 120-127
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Kimbriel, Christine Slottved (Kimbriel, Christine Slottved)
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1. Sir Nicholas Carew, by Hans Holbein the Younger. 1527. Black and coloured chalks on paper, 54.8 by 38.5 cm. (Kunstmuseum Basel).
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2. Sir Nicholas Carew, after Hans Holbein the Younger. c.1585–90. Oil on panel, 95.1 by 102.4 cm. (Collection of the Duke of Buccleuch; photograph Hamilton Kerr Institute).
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3. Infra-red image of Fig.1. (© Hamilton Kerr Institute).
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4. Digital overlay of Figs.1 and 2.
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5. Detail of Fig.2, showing the extreme bottom of the slashed skirt and the better-preserved blue paint with red glaze paint.
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6. Impresa of the Basel book printer Johann Froben, by Hans Holbein the Younger. c.1523. Tempera on unprimed canvas (Tüchlein), 44 by 31 cm. (Kunstmuseum Basel).
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7. The Prodigal Son, by Huybrecht Beuckelaer. 1563–84. Oil on canvas, 127.5 by 155.5 cm. (Musées royaux des Beaux-Arts de Belgique, Brussels).
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Bronzino’s portrait of Cosimo I de’ Medici in armour re-examined
01/2023 | 1438 | 165
Pages: 4-15
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Dredge, Paula (Dredge, Paula)
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Gérard-Austin, Anne (Gérard-Austin, Anne)
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Howard, Daryl (Howard, Daryl)
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Ives, Simon (Ives, Simon)
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1. Cosimo I de’ Medici in armour, by Agnolo Bronzino. c.1545. Oil on poplar panel, 86 by 66.8 cm. (Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney; © Art Gallery of New South Wales, Diana Panuccio).
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10. Detail of the XRF copper map of Fig.1, showing an inscribed horizontal line on the lower-right side passing through the broncone and the additional leaves of the side branch. (© Art Gallery of New South Wales).
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11. Detail of the XRF lead map of Fig.1, showing an inscribed horizontal line on the lower-right side passing through the broncone and the additional leaves of the side branch. (© Art Gallery of New South Wales).
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12. XRF scan mapping the distribution of arsenic in Fig.1. (© Art Gallery of New South Wales).
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13. XRF scan mapping the distribution of copper in Fig.1. The black and white arrows indicate the green copper-based azurite pigment embedded into the indentation left in the surface after inscribing lines and the painting out of armour at the waist in preparation for cutting the panel. (© Art Gallery of New South Wales).
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14. Detail of Fig.8, showing an inscribed horizontal line on the lower-left side with removal of lead. (© Art Gallery of New South Wales).
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15. Paint cross section outside the inscribed line showing two phases of blue/green azurite crystals, one circled in white.
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15–17. Paint cross sections and SEM backscattered electron images of the painting illustrated in Fig.1. Locations of sample sites are indicated by the white letters in Fig.18.
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16. Paint cross section of the green background inside the inscribed area showing a single phase of azurite crystals.
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17. Paint cross section on the shoulder showing a thin layer of leadbased paint from armour with grey/green background from the l ower painting and a two-phase azurite pigment circled in white. (© Art Gallery of New South Wales, Paula Dredge).
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18. Purple indicates the areas of copper-based azurite background containing arsenic (outside the inscribed line and upper shoulder). Red indicates the area of copper-based azurite background that does not contain arsenic. Green indicates the area of copper-based azurite background not containing arsenic but repainted. (© Art Gallery of New South Wales, Paula Dredge).
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19. Composite XRF scan map of Fig.1 showing mercury (red) and iron (green). (© Art Gallery of New South Wales).
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2. Cosimo I de’ Medici in armour, by Agnolo Bronzino. 1543. Oil on panel, 71 by 57 cm. (Galleria degli Uffizi, Florence; Bridgeman Images).
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20. Red line trace of all features present in the infra-red image and XRF iron, copper, lead and mercury maps of Fig.1 that are not visible on the painting. (© Art Gallery of New South Wales, Simon Ives).
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21. Portrait of Cosimo I de’ Medici, half-length, in a black slashed doublet and a plumed hat, holding a book, by Jacopo Pontormo. c.1537– 38. Oil (or oil and tempera) on panel, 100.6 by 77 cm. (Private collection; Bridgeman Images).
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22. Head of a man, by Agnolo Bronzino. c.1550–55. Black chalk on paper, 13.8 by 10.3 cm. (J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles).
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23. Fig.22 superimposed on the face of the Sydney lower painting red line trace in Fig.20. (Photograph © Art Gallery of New South Wales, Simon Ives).
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24. Portrait of a young man, by Agnolo Bronzino. 1550–55. Oil on panel, 85.73 by 68.58 cm. (Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City), and Fig.20 superimposed. (Photograph © Art Gallery of New South Wales, Simon Ives).
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3. Macro photograph of Fig.1, showing a copying error in which the top edge of the helmet has been drawn (placement indicated with white arrows) but mistakenly painted as background. (© Art Gallery of New South Wales, Diana Panuccio).
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4. Macro photograph of Fig.1, showing the reflection of the red ribbon on the proper left rondel. The ridges of red lake paint suggest they were dabbed, leaving the impression of a fingerprint in the paint. (© Art Gallery of New South Wales, Diana Panuccio).
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5. Digital X-radiograph of Fig.1. (© Art Gallery of New South Wales, Paula Dredge).
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6. Detail of infra-red reflectogram of Fig.1. (© Art Gallery of New South Wales, Paula Dredge).
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7. Infra-red reflectogram of Fig.1 with placement of incised lines indicated with white arrows. (© Art Gallery of New South Wales, Paula Dredge).
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8. XRF scan mapping the distribution of lead in Fig.1. (© Art Gallery of New South Wales).
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9. XRF scan mapping the distribution of mercury in Fig.1. (© Art Gallery of New South Wales).
Article
Innovation and empiricism: Delacroix’s ‘Taking of Constantinople by the Crusaders’
12/2022 | 1437 | 164
Pages: 1196-1209
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Lee, Simon (Lee, Simon)
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1. Taking of Constantinople by the Crusaders, by Eugène Delacroix. 1840. Oil on canvas, 410 by 498 cm (Musée du Louvre, Paris; Bridgeman Images).
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10. Sketch for the Taking of Constantinople, by Eugène Delacroix. c.1839–40. Oil on canvas, 33 by 41 cm. (Musée Condé, Chantilly).
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11. Sketch for the Taking of Constantinople, here attributed to Eugène Delacroix. 1840. Oil on canvas, 65 by 81 cm. (Private collection; photograph courtesy of Collins Fine Art Ltd, New York).
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12. Drawing for the Taking of Constantinople, by Eugène Delacroix. c.1839–40. Graphite on paper, 20.7 by 33.8 cm. (Département des Arts Graphiques, Musée du Louvre, Paris, RF 42753).
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2. Louis-Philippe and the royal family visit the Salles des croisades at Versailles, July 1844, by Prosper Lafaye. 1844. Canvas, 61 by 86.5 cm (Musés des châteaux de Versailles et de Trianon).
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3. Detail of Fig.1, showing the group of the old man, woman and child.
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4. Detail of Fig.1, showing the group of Baudouin and the mounted crusaders.
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5. Detail of Fig.1, showing the group of women.
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6. Detail of Fig.1, showing a soldier assaulting an old man.
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7. Ptolemais delivered to Philippe-Auguste and Richard the Lionheart of England, 11th or 12th July 1191, by Merry-Joseph Blondel. 1840. Oil on canvas, 406 by 494 cm. (Grande Salle, Salles des croisades, Château de Versailles; Bridgeman Images).
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8. Detail of Fig.1, showing the reflection in the lid of the gold casket.
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9. Drawing for the Taking of Constantinople, by Eugène Delacroix. c.1839-40. Graphite on paper, 18.1 by 27.8 cm. (Département des Arts Graphiques, Musée du Louvre, Paris, RF 9368).
Article
Cut from the same cloth: a composite canvas by Paul Cezanne
12/2022 | 1437 | 164
Pages: 1224-1233
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Aebi, Kiko (Aebi, Kiko)
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Haddad, Abed (Haddad, Abed)
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1. Still life with apples, by Paul Cezanne. c.1878. Oil on canvas, 19 by 27 cm. (Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge, lent by the Provost and Fellows of King’s College, Cambridge, Keynes Collection).
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10. Study of heads, by Pierre-August Renoir. 1890s. Oil on canvas, 46 by 38 cm. (Barnes Foundation, Philadelphia).
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2. Glass and apples, by Paul Cezanne. 1879–80. Oil on canvas. 31.5 by 40 cm. (Rudolf Staechelin, Basel).
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3. Female nude (Leda), by Paul Cezanne. c.1887. Oil on canvas stretched on pasteboard, 44 by 62 cm. (Von der Heydt- Museum, Wuppertal).
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4. Reconstituted study sheet of drawings by Paul Cezanne, subsequently divided into three separate compositions: Sheet of studies, including a Skull (left), A historical or Biblical scene (The rape of Lucretia) (top right), and A historical or Biblical scene (bottom right). (From W. Feilchenfeldt, J. Warman and D. Nash: The Paintings, Watercolors and Drawings of Paul Cezanne, www.cezannecatalogue.com).
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5. Image of Glass with apples (right) and Still life with apples (left) unframed and in their original configuration, revealing contiguous brush strokes across both pictures. (© Museum of Modern Art, New York, 2022; photograph the authors).
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6. X-ray radiograph of Glass with apples (right) and Still life with apples (left). (Fondation Beyeler, Riehen, and Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge).
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7. MA-XRF maps of Glass with apples (right) and Still life with apples (left), showing the distribution of iron (Fe), calcium (Ca), zinc (Zn), copper (Cu), cobalt (Co), chromium (Cr) and mercury (Hg). (© Museum of Modern Art, New York, 2022; photograph the authors).
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8. Lead L-series (Pb-L) MA-XRF map of Glass with apples (right) and Still life with apples (left), with inset details magnifying holes along the edge of the original canvas. (© Museum of Modern Art, New York, 2022; photograph the authors).
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9. Five apples, by Paul Cezanne. 1877–78. Oil on canvas, 12.7 by 25.5 cm. (Private collection).
Article
The Art of Conservation: XVII: Jan Cornelis Traas, paintings restorer of the Van Gogh family collection
02/2022 | 1427 | 164
Pages: 164-177
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Author:
Hendriks, Ella (Hendriks, Ella)
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1. Jan Cornelis Traas at work on Girl with a pearl earring, by Johannes Vermeer, in the Mauritshuis, The Hague. 1960. Photograph. (Royal Picture Gallery Mauritshuis, The Hague).
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10. Photograph of Fig.9 recording its damaged condition prior to the 1927 restoration by Traas. (Photograph Bernard F. Eilers; from W. Scherjon and W. Jos de Gruyter: Vincent van Gogh’s great period. Arles, St. Rémy and Auvers sur Oise, Amsterdam 1937).
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11. The bedroom at Arles, by Vincent van Gogh. 1888. Oil on canvas, 72.4 by 91.3 cm. Photographed after the 2009–10 treatment when Traas’s old varnish and retouches were removed. The originally pale violet walls and lilac doors described by the artist are now light blue, owing to the fading of a red cochineal lake in the paint mixture used. (Van Gogh Museum, Amsterdam; Vincent van Gogh Foundation).
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12. Digital visualisation providing an impression of the original colours of Fig.11. (Van Gogh Museum, Amsterdam; Vincent van Gogh Foundation).
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13. Vishwa R. Mehra making a condition report on the Van Gogh collection. 1984. Photograph. (Van Gogh Museum, Amsterdam, Vincent van Gogh Foundation).
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14. Self-portrait with grey felt hat, by Vincent van Gogh. 1887. Oil on canvas, 44.5 by 37.2 cm. Shown after it was vandalised in 1978. (Van Gogh Museum, Amsterdam; Vincent van Gogh Foundation).
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2. Willem J. Steenhoff in the Van Gogh Gallery of the Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam, with The potato eaters (F82) in the background. 1918. Photograph. (Van Gogh Museum, Amsterdam; Vincent van Gogh Foundation).
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3. Living room of Jo van Gogh-Bonger’s house in Brachthuyzerstraat, Amsterdam, showing from left to right: The white orchard (F403); The pink peach tree (F404); and The pink orchard (F555). c.1917. Photograph Thijs Quispel. (Van Gogh Museum, Amsterdam; Vincent van Gogh Foundation).
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4. Diagram of the Dutch method of wax-resin lining; in this case the original and lining canvases are enlarged with paper strips adhered to the edges, rather than the canvas strips sewn on by Traas, enabling the canvases to be stretched on wooden looms during lining. (From S. Cursiter and A.M. de Wild: ‘Picture relining’, in Technical Studies in the Field of Fine Arts 5 (1937)).
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5. Relining of Van Gogh’s Railway bridge over Avenue Montmajour, Arles (F480; whereabouts unknown), showing the preparation of the sawdust bed on which the painting is laid face downwards for lining without a hot table, by ironing, using ‘an elaborate insulation with tin foil and a sawdust bedding’ to protect the high impasto. Photograph, taken probably in Helmut Ruhemann’s studio in Berlin c.1932. (From Manual on the Conservation and Restoration of Paintings, Paris 1940).
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6. Field with irises near Arles, by Vincent van Gogh. May 1888. Oil on canvas, 54 by 65 cm. (Van Gogh Museum, Amsterdam; Vincent van Gogh Foundation).
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7. Fig.6 photographed in raking light after the removal of the varnish in 2014–15.
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8. Enlarged detail of Fig.6, showing canvas weave impressed in the flattened impasto from rolling and sending the painting to Theo van Gogh.
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9. An old woman of Arles, by Vincent van Gogh. 1888. Oil on canvas, 58 by 42 cm., showing the corners filled with putty and an even tone. (Van Gogh Museum, Amsterdam; Vincent van Gogh Foundation).
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