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Posted on 26/12/202219/01/2023

Change of posture and materials among nineteenth-century South Asian painters

Western art has a plethora of self-portraits of artists at work. Rembrandt's paintings, in which the artist represents himself at different stages of his life,…

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Posted on 26/09/202226/09/2022

Revealing the unseen in Indian miniature paintings with the Multimodal Image Viewer.

When I was conservator at the Rijksmuseum from 2017 to 2019, I studied the Indian drawings in the collection. I was fortunate to benefit from…

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Posted on 08/09/202208/09/2022

Mounting a double-sided folio in hyperlapse

For each drawing and painting, I make a float mount using a sheet of Japanese paper in which a window is cut to allow viewing…

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Posted on 07/09/202207/09/2022

The mounting of a painting with dust-cover using photo-corners: a longing heroine braves the storm

The project on the Pahari works of the Museum Volkenkunde is going well. I am currently mounting the 134 paintings and drawings using methods tailored…

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Posted on 11/05/202112/05/2021

Tools and tips for the conservation of Indian miniature paintings

The nanomister I recently purchased this device and am very happy with it. There are literally thousands of models online, so it's hard to find…

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Posted on 12/03/202113/03/2021

Souvenir from an imaginary city: decrypting and conserving an enigmatic urban depiction from nineteenth-century northern India.

My thanks go to Shivani Sud for her opinion on the possible origin of this painting. Shivani is currently preparing her upcoming PhD dissertation, "The…

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Posted on 31/12/202006/02/2021

Sketches and doodles from Himalaya

The beauty of drawings epitomizes the artist’s first intention and his immediate gesture. A simple of sheet of paper conveys an array of small sketches,…

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Posted on 17/09/202020/10/2020

First encounter with the birds: research and conservation of a series of bird drawings from the Museum Volkenkunde

The collection of 24 drawings held at the Museum Volkenkunde depicts various birds from the western foothills of Himalaya, in the today-states of Himachal Pradesh…

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Posted on 23/04/202025/04/2020

Between the gourd and the harp: historical repairs in African manuscripts

Sutures in Sub-Saharan manuscripts While condition surveying manuscripts in the Museum of Islamic Art, Qatar, in 2014, I encountered some intriguing repairs in a copy…

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Posted on 01/04/202001/04/2020

Pricks and dabs: what an Indian drawing tells us about the techniques of Indian artists

The drawing, from the Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam link, features the Coronation of Rama, an episode from the Rāmāyaṇa (Fig.1). It was produced in Kangra, a…

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