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2023, "Endangered Art Conserved"
Charles Émile Jacque was a French artist associated with the Barbizon School, a 19th-century movement of Realist painters. Like other Barbizon artists such as Jean-François Millet, Jacque often painted pastoral scenes.
This painting had a significant area of damage and a hole in the center that conservators concluded was caused by woodworms. Examination under ultraviolet light revealed that an unknown restorer had attempted to repair and inpaint the hole at some point in the painting’s past. Conservators mechanically removed the wood putty filler from the previous restoration and injected a liquid molten B-72 formulation into the woodworm channels. Then they leveled and stabilized the fills with calcium carbonate and inpainted areas of paint loss. Finally, they coated the surface with a stabilizing varnish.Label
2024, “Endangered Art: Reclaiming a Legacy”
Charles Émile Jacque was a French artist associated with the Barbizon School, a 19th-century movement of Realist painters. Like other Barbizon artists such as Jean-François Millet, Jacque often painted pastoral scenes that evoked a rural way of life threatened by increasing industrialization.
This painting had a significant area of damage and a hole in the center that conservators determined was caused by woodworms. Examination under ultraviolet light revealed that an unknown restorer had unsuccessfully attempted to repair the hole at some point in the painting’s past. Conservators removed the wood putty filler from the previous restoration and injected a molten solution into the woodworm channels. After the liquid hardened, they leveled the fills and in-painted areas of paint loss.