Abstract
Using the method of Raman spectroscopy the pigment composition is investigated of, and the brushwork technique used in, the original layer of a 19th century painting is established. It is an overdoor worked, presumably, by Antoine Jean-Etienne Faivre. It is established that the artist used the following pigments: cinnabar and dyes on the basis of goethite and hematite (for red, yellow–orange, and brown shades), ultramarine and Prussian blue (for blue shades), and Emerald green and a mixture of blue and yellow shades (to obtain a green color). It is determined that white lead was used a primer.
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Original Russian Text © O.I. Petrova, D.V. Pankin, A.V. Povolotckaia, E.V. Borisov, M.O. Beznosova, T.A. Krivul’ko, A.V. Kurochkin, 2017, published in Optika i Spektroskopiya, 2017, Vol. 123, No. 6, pp. 957–962.
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Petrova, O.I., Pankin, D.V., Povolotckaia, A.V. et al. Identification of Pigments in Colored Layers of a Painting by Raman Spectroscopy. Opt. Spectrosc. 123, 965–969 (2017). https://doi.org/10.1134/S0030400X17120128
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