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"Ecce Homo"
Object
Easel painting, oil on canvas
Artist
Unknown
Dating
19th century
Dimensions
35 x 46.5 cm (unframed) // 45.5 x 57 cm (framed)
Location
Private collection
Work performed
- Initial technological examination and preparation of a conservation project
- Consolidation of the unstable pictorial layer
- Surface cleaning (dry and then wet aqueous) using surfactants and chelating agents
- Removal of darkened and heavily blanched varnish layers
- Removal of secondary overpainting
- Removal of the painting from a rigid and unstable strainer severely damaged by xylophage attack
- Removal of old mismatched fillers
- Removal of old mismatched inlays from the canvas support
- Application of a new inlay in the support
- Removal of deformations in the support
- Application of strip-lining (Beva® 371)
- Stretching the painting onto a new stretcher
- Further filling of smaller defects in the canvas support with fibre pulp
- Replenishing the gesso layer with studio fillers
- Initial retouching with Schmincke® Horadam watercolours
- Final retouching with Gamblin® Conservation Colors paints
- Application of intermediate and final varnish (studio-modified Regalrez® 1094 aldehyde varnish)
- Mounting the acid-free backing board to the painting and mounting the painting in a frame
Conservation effects
After conservation
Before conservation
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