Paint Restorer

Paint Restorer

  During the second half of the eighteenth century, the profession of painting restorer became established in France. Documents concerning the careers of the restorers of that period employed by the French Royal Collection, and then by the new French Republic, have been examined, resulting in this study in which the biographies of the main painting restorers of the seventeenth, eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries are placed into the historical and cultural setting of the period. Details of the techniques used by these restorers are presented in detail. The narrative concludes in the early nineteenth century with the death of François-Toussaint Hacquin in 1832 – about the time of the Restauration (of Louis-Philippe to the throne) in 1830.

Paint Restorer

Paint Restorer

Paint Restorer

Paint Restorer

Paint Restorer

Paint Restorer

Paint Restorer

Paint Restorer

Paint Restorer

Paint Restorer

Paint Restorer

Paint Restorer

Paint Restorer

Paint Restorer

Paint Restorer

Paint Restorer