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by reem wahba 13 years ago

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Cézanne Painting

A painting believed to be by Cézanne, owned by Edgar, bears strong resemblance to another at the Barnes Foundation. The brushwork features parallel, hatched strokes indicative of Cézanne'

Cézanne Painting

Cézanne Painting

Brushwork

is characterized by solid groupings of parallel, hatched brushstrokes that build up a sense of mass within each visual element in the composition

Owner

Edgar

Compostion

similar to the pigments used during the period 1839-1906. Therefore there are no pigment anachronisms

Date

1880s.

Painter

cezanne
Didnt usually Sign all his paintings

No evidence fluorescence for polyene emission from the painting

Types to examine paintings

UV is similar to are very similar to those found in the Brooklyn Cézanne."
X-ray spectroscopist's proved this painting to be an original painting .
due to the compositions of pigments that after examintation were available during Cézanne's time.
1-Ultraviolet spectrum(UV) 2-infrared(IR) 3-x-ray fluorescence (XRF)
All types indicate that the painting might not be a Cézanne at all.
IR indicates that there is an underdrawing,charcoal
cezanee is known not to have done any underdrawings

Analysis of the yellow areas shows indirectly that they could be cadmium-based, maybe composed of Cadmium Yellow Lithopone . This pigment mix wasn't widely used until 1927, and yet Cézanne had died some 20 years earlier

similar to a Cézanne at the Barnes Foundation in Merion, Pennsylvania