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James the Great

Treatment

  • Consolidating paint flakes

  • Glueing cracks / joints

  • Varnish removal

  • Filling and retouching

Identification

  • Artist : Unknown, possibly follower of Quinten Matsijs

  • Manufacture : Presumably late sixteenth or early seventeenth century

Condition

  • Yellowed varnish

  • Craquelures

  • Crack / open joint

  • Gaps

  • Old restoration: overpainting, retouching, consolidation and wax resin fillings

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Research

  • Material technical

    • microscopic analysis

    • UV examination

    • Experiments

    • XRF analysis and pigment chronology

    • Stratigraphic research

 

  • Art historical

    • Comparison with similar works.

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