The Structural Conservation of Panel Paintings

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264 Ségolène Bergeon, Gilberte Emile-Mâle, Claude Huot, and Odile Baÿ I  ,the policy governing the stabilization of ...

in cradling and transfer and that the corporations of the Ancien Regime played a role in approving the qualifications of artisan ...

the cabinetmaker Paul Maridat and the reliners A. Pouget and Raymond Lepage.^12 Shortly after the end of the Second World War, M ...

relinings with marouflage^21 on the back side, as protection against humidity, for the Louvre, as well as for the studios of Ver ...

that picture, he carefully preserved the existing mobile upper crossbar with iron pins—which was either an original or a very ol ...

and for Sainte Cécile(transferred in 1803) (Emile-Mâle 1982b).^41 In 1798, after arguments with François-Toussaint Hacquin, Jean ...

Originally the purpose of these cradles was to hold a straightened panel flat while avoiding splits through the use of sliding c ...

in which our workers have achieved perfection, followed by Italy and Flanders,” and the fixed, so-called simplified cradles for ...

fils,preserved in the Louvre).^52 This inert support was called trésailles (Lameer e 1930:245). This word was used differ ently ...

painting La Vierge d’Autun,or La Vierge du Chancelier Rolin. T his frame was made of Permali, a very stable Bakelized wood, fitt ...

Claude Huot began his apprenticeship in October 1951, studying theory in the cabinetmaking department at the furniture industry’ ...

In 1969 Claude Huot made a second tour of Italy, visiting Siena, Florence, Bologna, and Rome, and he also had the opportunity to ...

an intervening layer of balsa, shaped to follow the surface contours of the painting, while the reverse was covered by a rigid s ...

wood, and equipped with a flat, aesthetic cradle. Other approaches to backing have appeared over the years. A simple gluing of a ...

panel, in order to lessen the friction of wood against wood.^73 In the system of cylindrical steel crossbars used from 1967 to 1 ...

with crossbars that slide within cleats equipped with rollers; this method was devised in 1971 for Titian’s Le Couronnement d’ép ...

that ofRaphael’sMadone de Lorette,treated in 1977, in the Musée Condé, Chantilly. For the TarasconPietà,a v ery precious and rar ...

The same sensibility prevailed in a 1979 intervention on L’Annonciation,a w ork by the Master of the Altarpiece of Arceteri (Mus ...

The authors wish to dedicate this article to René Perche, cabinetmaker (1913–89). They are especially grateful to Mme Y. Cantare ...