Jan Anthonisz. van Ravesteyn, Portrait of a Woman
Wade, 1916.1055 · The Cleveland Museum of Art, Open Access (CC0)View original →
Jan Anthonisz. van Ravesteyn

Portrait of a Woman

1620s

Current Collection

Cleveland Museum of Art

Cleveland, United States

Medium
oil on wood
Dimensions
53.2 × 45 cm
Status
In Museum Collection
Collect24 Art ID
C24-109567

How do you conserve a painting when portions are missing? The mid-treatment image (below) shows the painting after cleaning, when earlier restorations had been removed. In the painting on view, notice how the conservator reconstructed portions of the sitter’s lace collar and elaborate necklace. She re-created missing passages after studying the artist’s technique in other works and carefully emulating his treatment of the remaining lace and elements of the twisting, three-dimensional necklace. Conversely, there was not enough information to reconstruct what was probably another ornament at th…

Provenance

Wade, 1916.1055

Registry history

  • 1620s — Recorded in the collection of Cleveland Museum of Art

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