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The Fishing Party by Jan van Eyck (?) : a technical analysis
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Abstract
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| In this paper we will explain that the Eyckian drawing known as The Fishing Party, long thought to be either an unfinished drawing, or a sketch for a mural or tapestry, is in fact composed of two fragments that once belonged to a single full-coloured drawing. MA-XRF scans prove that, with the exception of vermilion red and a copper-green, the pigments have completely faded. Furthermore, as the middle segment of the original drawing has been lost, it becomes clear that the two groups of noblemen and women are not standing on the left and right banks of a small brook, but rather on the shoreline of a lake or pond. At the time when the two fragments were placed immediately adjacent to each other, in the early seventeenth century, the ends of the hunting sticks were extended as fishing rods, a row of stones was added in the foreground and the background was repainted. |
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Language
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English
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Source (book)
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Van Eyck Studies. Papers presented at the Eighteenth Symposium for the Study of Underdrawing and Technology in Painting, Brussels, 19-21 September 2012
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Publication
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Leuven
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Peeters
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2017
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ISBN
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978-90-429-3415-3
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Volume/pages
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p. 439-451
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Full text (publisher's version - intranet only)
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