Experimenting with a vivid blonde, only to instead a dark brunette, settle is an old cliched, story-in fact, it is at least 200 years old.
A new analysis of the 19 paintings shows that the artist is a blonde with purple bands in the hair of first before painting the canvas with a calmer, unadorned brunette represented.
Change in the original version of a painting, a practice said to known as Pentimenti from the Italian Pentirsi, reverse, often, Matthias Alfeld, the presented his find March 29 at a meeting of the American Chemical Society. Case "of the artist regret" was revealed known by a technique as scan macro X-ray fluorescence at DESY, at the German Accelerator Laboratory in Hamburg. Hidden pigments without any of the images reveal stimulated by an X-ray, chemical elements in the painting Fluoresce.
The analysis revealed that the now known as "Pauline in a white dress" painting after significant changes. Noted the presence of cobalt pigment was blue in the MS bands used purple hair, and the pigment orange-red displayed vermilion from mercury was. The presence and distribution of antimony, indicating relating to Naples yellow pigment and lead, white color, suggest that the woman had to be Castle first blonde lure, which was loosely over her shoulders, the neat brown hair pulled back the visible work strongly contrasting.
"This is an indication that the artist you regretted and made it more modest," said Alfeld, the University of Antwerp, in Belgium.
This artist was remains in question. The painting is attributed to the romantic German painter Philipp Otto Runge and is considered his wife Pauline. But the attribution of many scholars is controversial. The X-ray analysis was requested the painting of the owner, who hoped that it for all the artist's identity could confirm.
The results strengthen the secret, confirmed only that an unknown artist once dallied with a blonde then but better it.
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