After IMAGE

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Date: 2015-05-18

Public Outreach

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Date: 2015-05-23

Poster and Presentation at AIC

At the 43rd Annual AIC Meeting in Miami, project leader Kristin deGhetaldi delivered a presentation that focused on the restoration of the painting; project interns Keara Teeter and Allison Rabent presented a poster summarizing the three day process involved with x-raying the large 12 by 20 ft painting in-situ

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Date: 2015-05-23

Status

Continued retouching/inpainting small areas of loss as well as larger textured fills.

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Date: 2015-06-01

March 2015

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Date: 2015-06-01

May 2015

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Date: 2015-06-03

February 2015

Continued retouching/inpainting small areas of loss as well as larger textured fills. Continued using silicone molds and wax-resin paste to impart texture in large areas of loss.

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Date: 2015-02-05

2015-02 IMAGE

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Date: 2015-02-05

Continued with Texturing Wax-Resin Fills

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Date: 2015-02-07

Continued Texturing Fills

The team continues to prepare wax-resin paste and texture large areas of loss. The project leaders document the filling process while fills continue to be textured along the bottom section of the painting (Pictured here: Project Leaders Kristin deGhetaldi and Brian Baade; Project volunteer Sarah Beaver)

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Date: 2015-02-07

Textured Fills

Two detailed shots of textured fills, as seen after applying heat and silicone molds to the wax-resin paste. Care is taken to continue brushstrokes and to repeat distinct craquelure patterns.

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Date: 2015-02-07

Applying Retouching Paints to Losses

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Date: 2015-02-15

Applying Reversible Paints to Losses

Several days were devoted to the reintegration of the outer edges, as these areas had with sustained the most damage due to previous restoration campaigns and possibly poor storage/handling conditions. Extremely small brushes are used to carefully mix and apply the reversible, stable conservation paints to areas of loss and abrasion. (Pictured Here: Project volunteers Morgan Shankweiler and Sarah Beaver)

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Date: 2015-02-15

Retouching in Progress

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Date: 2015-02-22

Child's Face

The face of the child along the far right edge of the painting had sustained considerable damage during previous restoration campaigns. The conservation team spent many hours carefully reintegrating the losses throughout the face.

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Date: 2015-02-22

Before

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Date: 2015-02-22

Before IMAGE

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Date: 2015-02-22

During

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Date: 2015-02-25

During IMAGE

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Date: 2015-02-25

Woman with Tambourine

Extremely small brushes are used to carefully mix and apply the reversible, stable conservation paints to areas of loss and abrasion throughout the female figure near the center of the painting.

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Date: 2015-02-22