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Painting Treatments
(This may be a bit of a wait, but its worth it.)
Before Treatment
Oil on canvas by Frederick Childe Hassam,
American Impressionist, (1859 to 1935).
After Treatment
Removal of surface dirt, consolidation of flaking paint,
inpainting (retouching), and finish varnishes.
Before Treatment
Detail of early 19th century oil on canvas by an unknown artist.
The child at left was the grandmother of the client. Note the tear
by the left ear and discoloring surface dirt and discolored varnish.
During Treatment
Removal of disfiguring layers after solubility testing.
After Treatment
After tear repair, filling, inpainting, and final varnishing. Note
that the painting clearly depicts the artist's intent and color
palette. The contrast is vastly improved, there is greater detail
in all areas including shadows, and there is improved color saturation.
Miscellaneous Projects
This iconographic painting was left in a shed in Mexico for decades.
A substantial area of loss appears over the left shoulder. After filling
with a canvas of similar warp and weft, it was inpainted to match the
newly cleaned and stabilized painting
Inpainting (retouching) in the hands of a capable conservator can
successfully integrate missing pictorial elements. We use re-
versible restoration colors over an isolating varnish layer.
This painting was rescued from under a mudslide in a flood in Carmel,
California. We specialize in dirty pictures.
Tear repair is one of the most common types of damage that oil paintings
sustain. Note that here this horizontal tear runs through areas of dense
visual information into the sky area of flat neutral color.
This 19th century European painting was conserved and then framed
in a period piece Florentine gold frame for a complete museum
treatment and visual enhancement.
