This painting is a family heirloom that was in a bit of a precarious situation: the linen that was used was a very heavy kind. This gave an advantage to the texture and the feel of the painting, a nice complement to a work of this theme, but unfortunately with heavy linen the paint film is more vulnerable to cracking; and as family heirloom’s tend to get up there in age, this painting had numerous areas in need of in-painting.
Off stretcher bar, uncleaned sharing damage and loss at the bottom portion of picture
Closer view of damage
Close up, no cleaning.
Going onto new linen with Beva-371.
Flattened and just re-stretched.
In-filling and cleaned.
Close up of in-fill.
Loss of paint and gesso in the body of the pheasant.
Close up of tail showing in-filling.
Some in-painting and more cleaning.
Further in-painting. Not quite done.
Cleaned and in-paint complete. No varnish.
Close of in-painting complete.
Close of in-painting complete.
Close of in-painting complete.
Cleaned.
In-filled and some in-painting.
Almost there.
Complete with varnish.
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