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Tag: Pahari painting

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 08/12/2022

Online lecture on my ongoing conservation and research project (Tuesday 13th December 2022)

Next Tuesday, I will give an online lecture on my project to research and conserve the Pahari drawing and painting collection of the Museum Volkenkunde.…

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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 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 19/05/202019/05/2020

A forthcoming conservation and research project on Pahari and Punjabi drawings and paintings from the Volkenkunde Museum in Leiden.

When the lockdown is over, hopefully at the beginning of June, I will be starting a conservation and research project at the Volkenkunde Museum in…

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