Cézanne Painting

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

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.

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.

UV is similar to are very similar to those found in the Brooklyn Cézanne."

cezanne

Didnt usually Sign all his paintings

1880s.

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

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