Cincinnati Art Museum's chief conservator Serena Urry was conducting a routine inspection of the institution's prized Paul Cézanne painting 'Still Life with Bread and Eggs' when she noticed something 'odd.'
Cincinnati Art Museum's chief conservator Serena Urry was conducting a routine inspection of the institution's prized Paul Cézanne painting"Still Life with Bread and Eggs" when she noticed something"odd."
The conservator asked a local medical company to bring a portable X-ray machine to the museum, where a technician scanned the 2.5-foot-wide oil painting in several parts. As Urry stitched the series of images together digitally using Photoshop, she saw"blotches of white" that indicated the presence of more white lead pigment."I was trying to figure out what the heck they were... then I just turned it ," she recalled.
"Stitched together, this information may add to our understanding of a formative moment in the early career of this great artist."Part of the Cincinnati Art Museum's collection since 1955,"Still Life with Bread and Eggs" was painted in a realist style — inspired by the Spanish and Flemish Baroque periods — that Cézanne deployed early in his career.
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