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kottke.org posts about Charles Le Brun

posted by Jason Kottke

Reviving a 17th century masterpiece

The Met recently cleaned and repaired a 1660 painting by Charles Le Brun called Everhard Jabach and His Family. It took ten months of painstaking work, as this video shows:

Colossal has some before-and-after shots of the painting.