Christopher Brown, Anthony Reeve and Martin Wyld
Technical Bulletin Volume 6, 1982
Abstract
A detailed examination of The Watering Place during treatment revealed that the support consists of 11 separate pieces of wood. The successive stages in its physical construction were established and as a result, some identification of the stages of Rubens' creation of his landscape emerge.
Keywords
painting, panel paintings, repairing, Peter Paul Rubens, wood
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