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