A multimodal study of smalt preservation and degradation on the painting "Woman doing a Libation or Artemisia" from an anonymous painter of the Fontainebleau School

Clément de Mecquenem (1, 2, 3) , Myriam Eveno (3, 4) , Matthias Alfeld (5) , Ruven Pillay (3) , Eric Laval (3) , Elisabeth Ravaud (3, 4) , Ina Reiche (4, 6)

1 IPANEMA - Institut photonique d'analyse non-destructive européen des matériaux anciens
2 PCMTH - Physicochimie des Matériaux Témoins de l’Histoire (partenariat Chimie ParisTech et C2RMF)
3 C2RMF - Centre de recherche et de restauration des musées de France
4 IRCP - Institut de Recherche de Chimie Paris
5 TU Delft - Delft University of Technology
6 new AGLAE - New AGLAE - CNRS/Ministère de la Culture/ENSCP

The blue pigment smalt, a synthetic potash glass tinted with cobalt, was widely used between the sixteenth and the eighteenth centuries. As part of a study on the alteration of smalt and the reconstitution of its original color, the painting: Woman doing a Libation or Artemisia (Fontainebleau school, 1570) was examined in which the artist used

Domaines: Chimie; Sciences de l'Homme et Société

Clément de Mecquenem, Myriam Eveno, Matthias Alfeld, Ruven Pillay, Eric Laval, et al.. A multimodal study of smalt preservation and degradation on the painting "Woman doing a Libation or Artemisia" from an anonymous painter of the Fontainebleau School. The European Physical Journal Plus, 2023, 138 (2), pp.185. ⟨10.1140/epjp/s13360-023-03799-4⟩. ⟨hal-04303121⟩