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Jan van Goyen Dutch, 1596 - 1656 View of Dordrecht from the Dordtse Kil, 1644 oil on panel, 64.7 x 95.9 cm (25 x 37 3/4 in.) Ailsa Mellon Bruce Fund 1978.11.1 |
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Conservation Notes
The support is a thin oak panel composed of three horizontally grained boards of equal width joined horizontally. The support has been mounted onto another thin panel and cradled, with a slight dislevel along the upper join of the original panel. Paint is applied over a thin white ground with low, fine brushmarking, in thin semi-transparent darks and thicker opaque lights.[1] In the sky and light areas of water, the buildings and boats were painted over a thin, pale underpaint layer. A thicker, more opaque upper layer was then applied, passing around the boats and townscape.Small amounts of repaint cover the panel joins, edges, and areas of slight abrasion. In a prior restoration, four undamaged areas in the central sky were overpainted to make the clouds appear denser.
[1] Pigment analysis is available in the Scientific Research Department,
4 August 1982.
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