Serena Urry was conducting a routine inspection of the 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 think everyone's opinion is that it's a self-portrait ... He's posed in the way a self-portrait would be: in other words, he's looking at us, but his body is turned.Should that be the case, it would be among the earliest recorded depictions of the painter, who was in his mid-20s when the still life was completed.
Unanswered questionsPart 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. He later developed a more colorful aesthetic under the guidance of Impressionist painter Camille Pissarro, before spearheading the more structured style of the post-Impressionist movement.
"We're hoping to reach out to colleagues in the conservation and curatorial worlds to see if we can get access to other equipment," said Urry.
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