Leon Wyczółkowski’s pastels from the collections of professors’ portraits
in the Jagiellonian University Museum – technology and conservation issues Cover Image

Pastele Leona Wyczółkowskiego z kolekcji portretów profesorów Muzeum Uniwersytetu Jagiellońskiego - zagadnienia technologiczne i konserwatorskie
Leon Wyczółkowski’s pastels from the collections of professors’ portraits in the Jagiellonian University Museum – technology and conservation issues

Author(s): Agnieszka Marecka
Subject(s): Museology & Heritage Studies, Library and Information Science
Published by: Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Jagiellońskiego
Keywords: pastel; canvas ground; velour canvas; cardboard; paper; conservation methods

Summary/Abstract: The article deals with technology and conservation issues concerning Leon Wyczółkowski’s six portraits from the Jagiellonian University Museum at Collegium Maius. The characteristics of damage related to the type of ground is discussed. Non-typical canvas grounds sprinkled with woolen and cotton fibre, the so called velour canvas, are described, along with conservation methods.

  • Issue Year: 2014
  • Issue No: 22
  • Page Range: 151-163
  • Page Count: 13
  • Language: Polish
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