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Research and conservation of an early 16th century private altarpiece from the M-collection Wedding of Anna and Joachim Scholars’ Day ‘Current research in late medieval sculpture’ November 26th 2015 @ M - Museum Leuven
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Research and conservation of an early 16th century private

altarpiece from the M-collection

Wedding of Anna and Joachim

Scholars’ Day ‘Current research in late medieval sculpture’ November 26th 2015 @ M - Museum Leuven

Welcome

• what do we know?

• what do we see?

• treatment

• treatment by colleagues

• additional research

Scholars’ Day ‘Current research in late medieval sculpture’ November 26th 2015 @ M - Museum Leuven

what do we know?

Scholars’ Day ‘Current research in late medieval sculpture’ November 26th 2015 @ M - Museum Leuven

Provenance

Provenienz:Coll. Mme. Pericbon, Paris, (...) Montmartre(laut Stempel im Schrein), Schweizer Privatsammlung

Gemälde Alter MeisterAuktionMittwoch, 16. Juni 2010NachmittagKat.-Nr. 1000–1112

1007*ANTWERPENER SCHULE ANFANG 16. JH.Retabel mit der Vermählung von Anna und Joachim (?)Holz geschnitzt, polygrom gefasst und vergoldet mit Glaseinlagen (Mitte), Öl auf Holz, je 58 x 20,5 cm (Seitentafeln) resp. 58 x 48 cm (geschlossen)Der linke Flugel zeigt die Darstellung der Vermählung Mariens mit Joseph. Der rechte Flugel zeigt die Anbetung der Könige.

Thank you M. Rief!

Scholars’ Day ‘Current research in late medieval sculpture’ November 26th 2015 @ M - Museum Leuven

• Antwerp (?)

• ca. 1520

• mainly oak, oil paint, paper, glass

Wedding of Anna and Joachim

• Composite/’pastiche’

• additions in 19th c.

Scholars’ Day ‘Current research in late medieval sculpture’ November 26th 2015 @ M - Museum Leuven

Marriage of Maria and Joseph Adoration of the Magi

Scholars’ Day ‘Current research in late medieval sculpture’ November 26th 2015 @ M - Museum Leuven

• oil - and water gilding

• oil paint, bronze paint, matt paint

• tempera paint

• glacis

• glass

• oak and?

Wedding of Anna and Joachim

Scholars’ Day ‘Current research in late medieval sculpture’ November 26th 2015 @ M - Museum Leuven

Scholars’ Day ‘Current research in late medieval sculpture’ November 26th 2015 @ M - Museum Leuven

closed front side back side

Scholars’ Day ‘Current research in late medieval sculpture’ November 26th 2015 @ M - Museum Leuven

what do we see?

Scholars’ Day ‘Current research in late medieval sculpture’ November 26th 2015 @ M - Museum Leuven

looking deeper at the object - findings

16th century

• case & wings

• masonry and walls

• not this altarpiece fragment

composite-composed altarpiece

19th century

• choir stalls

• glass

• addition of a 16th c. altarpiece fragment

• predella

Scholars’ Day ‘Current research in late medieval sculpture’ November 26th 2015 @ M - Museum Leuven

16th century

was

now

Scholars’ Day ‘Current research in late medieval sculpture’ November 26th 2015 @ M - Museum Leuven

‘strips’

what?

Scholars’ Day ‘Current research in late medieval sculpture’ November 26th 2015 @ M - Museum Leuven

Scholars’ Day ‘Current research in late medieval sculpture’ November 26th 2015 @ M - Museum Leuven

Scholars’ Day ‘Current research in late medieval sculpture’ November 26th 2015 @ M - Museum Leuven

Scholars’ Day ‘Current research in late medieval sculpture’ November 26th 2015 @ M - Museum Leuven

additions in 19th century

hinges where replaced, board under the fragment

Scholars’ Day ‘Current research in late medieval sculpture’ November 26th 2015 @ M - Museum Leuven

small and bigger changes...

Scholars’ Day ‘Current research in late medieval sculpture’ November 26th 2015 @ M - Museum Leuven

Scholars’ Day ‘Current research in late medieval sculpture’ November 26th 2015 @ M - Museum Leuven

Scholars’ Day ‘Current research in late medieval sculpture’ November 26th 2015 @ M - Museum Leuven

Scholars’ Day ‘Current research in late medieval sculpture’ November 26th 2015 @ M - Museum Leuven

synopsis of damage and alterations

• purple: additions (19th c.)

• white: structural alterations

• green: ‘bandages’

• blue: new parts

• yellow & pink: glued

• red: lacunas wooden supportgroup

Scholars’ Day ‘Current research in late medieval sculpture’ November 26th 2015 @ M - Museum Leuven

back

• blue: nail holes

• purple: additions

• grey: nails & spikes

• red: crack-fissure

• orange: cracks in wooden support

• white: structural alterations

• green & grey: paper strips (glass)

predella, back

Scholars’ Day ‘Current research in late medieval sculpture’ November 26th 2015 @ M - Museum Leuven

Toon Van Campenhout

marks

Scholars’ Day ‘Current research in late medieval sculpture’ November 26th 2015 @ M - Museum Leuven

marks

Scholars’ Day ‘Current research in late medieval sculpture’ November 26th 2015 @ M - Museum Leuven

forestry mark

tools: M. Rief

Scholars’ Day ‘Current research in late medieval sculpture’ November 26th 2015 @ M - Museum Leuven

treatment

Scholars’ Day ‘Current research in late medieval sculpture’ November 26th 2015 @ M - Museum Leuven

• green: positioning mark

• blue: hole

• red: empty holes, previous

• yellow: exit holes (insects)

• brown: re-sculpted area

Scholars’ Day ‘Current research in late medieval sculpture’ November 26th 2015 @ M - Museum Leuven

Scholars’ Day ‘Current research in late medieval sculpture’ November 26th 2015 @ M - Museum Leuven

Scholars’ Day ‘Current research in late medieval sculpture’ November 26th 2015 @ M - Museum Leuven

during cleaning

Scholars’ Day ‘Current research in late medieval sculpture’ November 26th 2015 @ M - Museum Leuven

treatment by colleagues

Scholars’ Day ‘Current research in late medieval sculpture’ November 26th 2015 @ M - Museum Leuven

Scholars’ Day ‘Current research in late medieval sculpture’ November 26th 2015 @ M - Museum Leuven

multi-disciplinary research

• glass:

• Joost Caen (analyses)

• Carola Van den Wijngaert (treatment)

• panels & x-ray: David Lainé

• paper: Ann Peckstadt

• photogrammetry: Thomas Van Damme

• wood:

• Peter Taeymans

• Seppe Roels

Scholars’ Day ‘Current research in late medieval sculpture’ November 26th 2015 @ M - Museum Leuven

Peter Taeymans‘ work

Scholars’ Day ‘Current research in late medieval sculpture’ November 26th 2015 @ M - Museum Leuven

paper conservation by Ann Peckstadt

Scholars’ Day ‘Current research in late medieval sculpture’ November 26th 2015 @ M - Museum Leuven

Carola Van den Wijngaert

Carola Van den Wijngaert

Carola Van den Wijngaert

Carola Van den Wijngaert

Carola Van den Wijngaert

Carola Van den Wijngaert

conservation treatment of glass by Carola Van den Wijngaert

Scholars’ Day ‘Current research in late medieval sculpture’ November 26th 2015 @ M - Museum Leuven

additional research

Scholars’ Day ‘Current research in late medieval sculpture’ November 26th 2015 @ M - Museum Leuven

Photogrammetry by Thomas Van Damme

Scholars’ Day ‘Current research in late medieval sculpture’ November 26th 2015 @ M - Museum Leuven

X-ray imaging by David Lainé

Scholars’ Day ‘Current research in late medieval sculpture’ November 26th 2015 @ M - Museum Leuven

Scholars’ Day ‘Current research in late medieval sculpture’ November 26th 2015 @ M - Museum Leuven

Scholars’ Day ‘Current research in late medieval sculpture’ November 26th 2015 @ M - Museum Leuven

before - after

Scholars’ Day ‘Current research in late medieval sculpture’ November 26th 2015 @ M - Museum Leuven

Thank You!

Scholars’ Day ‘Current research in late medieval sculpture’ November 26th 2015 @ M - Museum Leuven


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