X-rays reveal artist’s face with hat and neckerchief on canvas in National Galleries of Scotland collection
It was on a Friday afternoon that they found him, staring intently from the back of a canvas in a wide-brimmed hat and loose neckerchief: a previously undiscovered self-portrait of
, of the moment that a routine conservation X-ray of another Van Gogh painting, Head of a Peasant Woman, revealed this extraordinary find on the back of the canvas, hidden for more than 100 years beneath layers of glue and cardboard.Photograph: Graeme Yule/National Galleries of Scotland “Lo and behold! We don’t see much of the peasant woman, but what we have is the lead white, the much heavier pigment he used for his face, showing up after the X-ray goes through the cardboard.”
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