SAO PAULO, Aug. 4 (ANSA) – After more than a century of mystery, finally found what image was hidden behind the frame of the paint layers “Portrait of a Woman” (1876), Impressionist painter Edgar Degas.
Thanks to a technique called fluorescence x-rays (XRF), which managed to bring to light the pigments used in the original painting by French artist, Australian scientists found that under the work was in another portrait of a woman with a good part of the face already completed.
Researchers at the National Gallery of Victoria, Australia, found the face of a young girl who is very similar to the French model Emma Dobigny, which served as a muse for painters in the late 19th century, as Jean- Baptiste Camille Corot and Pierre Puvis de Chavannes.
The hypothesis that the hidden outline in the picture is a picture of the model is quite plausible since for about 20 years she posed for Degas work. The two even exchanged letters. (ANSA)
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