{"id":32049,"date":"2015-07-22T02:00:29","date_gmt":"2015-07-22T06:00:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/?p=32049"},"modified":"2019-07-18T09:33:33","modified_gmt":"2019-07-18T13:33:33","slug":"metcollects-episode-14-michael-gallagher-on-everhard-jabach-and-his-family","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/2015\/07\/22\/metcollects-episode-14-michael-gallagher-on-everhard-jabach-and-his-family\/","title":{"rendered":"MetCollects\u2014Episode 14: Michael Gallagher on &#8220;Everhard Jabach and His Family&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p align=\"center\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"853\" height=\"480\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/maUcULquTXc\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><strong>Published on 9 Jun 2015<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;What does it take to revive a masterwork?&#8221; Michael Gallagher on conserving Charles Le Brun&#8217;s <em>Everhard Jabach and His Family<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Charles Le Brun (French, 1619\u20131690). Everhard Jabach (1618\u20131695) and His Family, ca. 1660. Oil on canvas; 110 1\/4 x 129 1\/8 in. (280 x 328 cm). The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, Purchase, Mrs. Charles Wrightsman Gift, in honor of Keith Christiansen, 2014 (2014.250)<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>H\/T to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.openculture.com\/2015\/07\/the-art-of-restoring-a-400-year-old-painting-a-five-minute-primer.html\" target=\"_blank\"><em>Open Culture<\/em><\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Long considered lost, the life-size family portrait of the artist\u2019s friend, a leading banker and art collector, was in sorry shape when the Metropolitan Museum acquired it from a private collection earlier last year.<\/p>\n<p>Gallagher worked for ten months to counteract the various indignities it had suffered, including a re-stretching that left the original canvas severely creased, and a Gilded Age application of varnish that weathered poorly over time.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s a painstaking process, restoring such a work to its original glory, requiring countless Q-tips and a giant roller that allowed staffers to safely flip all 9 x 10.75 feet of the massive canvas. Gallagher identifies the last step, a sprayed-on coat of varnish necessary for teasing out the painting\u2019s original luster, as the most nerve-wracking part of the odyssey.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Published on 9 Jun 2015 &#8220;What does it take to revive a masterwork?&#8221; Michael Gallagher on conserving Charles Le Brun&#8217;s Everhard Jabach and His Family Charles Le Brun (French, 1619\u20131690). Everhard Jabach (1618\u20131695) and His Family, ca. 1660. Oil on canvas; 110 1\/4 x 129 1\/8 in. (280 x 328 cm). The Metropolitan Museum of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":35193,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[62,7],"tags":[102,1298],"class_list":["post-32049","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-europe","category-history","tag-art","tag-museum"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/favicon.png","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2hpV6-8kV","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32049","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=32049"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32049\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":32052,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32049\/revisions\/32052"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/35193"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=32049"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=32049"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=32049"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}